General Economic History (Cosimo Classics) - Hardcover

Weber, Max

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1602069727 ISBN 13: 9781602069725

Publisher: Cosimo Classics, 2007

Synopsis

Considered one of the founders of modern sociology, German sociologist and historian MAX WEBER (1864-1920) long studied the impact of religion on culture-is most famous work is 1905's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism-but he was also renowned as a thinker on economic issues. Here, in this classic collection of lectures first published in English in 1927 and translated by American economist Frank Hyneman Knight (1885-1972), Weber brings his keen and lively sociological eye to the history of commerce, money, and industrial endeavor, discussing: . agricultural organization and the problem of agrarian communism . the house community and the clan . the evolution of the family as conditioned by economic factors . the condition of the peasants before the entrance of capitalism . capitalistic development of the manor . stages in the development of industry and mining . the origin of the European guilds . the factory and its forerunners . forms of organization of transportation and commerce . money and monetary history . the meaning of modern capitalism . the first great speculative crisis . citizenship as an economic concept . the evolution of the capitalistic spirit . and much more.

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Review:

-Max Weber (1864-1922) belongs to the German school of historical sociologists and ranks with Werner Sombart as a leading exponent of the historical development of social life.... The expression of a natural wish that Weber had actually written this book with his own hand must not be construed as ingratitude to the editors and students who, with commendable enterprise, took pains to pass on so much important and scholarly work to those who had not the privilege of hearing the lectures.- --Alfred Plummer, The Economic Journal -This volume contains a collection of lectures on economic history by Max Weber, who laboured for many years to fashion out a system of sociology and won the highest renown in Germany.... [S]o well worth study is this book that it must surely inspire its readers with the desire that Weber's principal works should be also rendered into English.- --R. F. Harrod, Journal of the Royal Institute of International Affairs -The special student will find all manner of delight in the illuminating treatment of particular points. The general reader will plow through the book with increasing pleasure.- --Max Lerner -Succinct and suggestive . . . will compel specialists to think.- --London Times.

About the Author:

Max Weber (1864-1920) was one of the founders of contemporary social science and arguably the greatest influence on the evolution of sociology--its theory and historical linkages. His work focused on the areas of the history and theology of religion, political systems, and organizational theory and behavior. He studied at the University of Heidelberg followed by the University of Berlin. After completing his advanced studies, he became professor of economics first at Freiburg University and then at the University of Heidelberg.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cosimo Classics
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1602069727
• ISBN 13: 9781602069725
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 428