Essays in Economic SociologyPrinceton University Press, 1999 M09 5 - 314 pages The writings of Max Weber (1864-1920) contain one of the most fascinating and sophisticated attempts ever made to create an economic sociology. Economic sociologist and Weber scholar Richard Swedberg has selected the most important of Weber's enormous body of writings on the topic, making these available for the first time in a single volume. The central themes around which the anthology is organized are modern capitalism and its relationships to politics, to law, and to culture and religion; a special section is devoted to theoretical aspects of economic sociology. Swedberg provides a valuable introduction illuminating biographical and intellectual dimensions of Weber's work in economic sociology, as well as a glossary defining key concepts in Weber's work in the field and a bibliographical guide to this corpus. |
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... example , his discussion of what we now would call social capital , his analysis of which institutions are needed for a well - functioning capitalist economy , and his more general attempt to introduce social structure into economic ...
... example , while pretending to follow what the teacher said , he se- cretly read Goethe's collected works in forty volumes . And in preparation for his confirmation , he taught himself Hebrew in order to read the Old Testament in the ...
... example , discussed Say's term ( which he translated as " social economy " ) in one of his essays of the 1830s.23 Some well - known econo- mists also adopted it for their own purposes , such as Alfred Marshall and Adolph Wagner.24 The ...
... example , a famous article on the decline of Rome and another on the social and economic history of antiquity ( which 26 Max Weber , Grundriss zu den Voriesungen über allgemeine ( " theoretische " ) Nationalokonomie ( 1898 ) ( Tubingen ...
... example , from his ear- lier cited statement that he chose to accept the offer from the University of Frei- burg to become an economist because economics appeared to him , in contrast to law , as a young and flexible science , with ...
Contents
Modern Capitalism Key Characteristics and Key Institutions | 43 |
The Spirit of Capitalism | 52 |
The Market | 75 |
The Beginnings of the Firm | 80 |
Class Status and Party | 83 |
CAPITALISM LAW AND POLITICS | 97 |
The Three Types of Legitimate Domination | 99 |
The Bureaucratization of Politics and the Economy | 109 |
The Evolution of the Capitalist Spirit | 157 |
The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism | 168 |
Kinship and Capitalism in China | 179 |
The Caste System in India | 185 |
Charity in Ancient Palestine | 189 |
THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY | 197 |
Sociological Categories of Economic Action | 199 |
The Area of Economics Economic Theory and the Ideal Type | 242 |
The Rational State and Its Legal System | 116 |
The National State and Economic Policy Freiburg Address | 120 |
The Social Causes of the Decay of Ancient Civilization | 138 |
CAPITALISM CULTURE AND RELIGION | 155 |