General Economic History

Max Weber

Cosimo, Inc., Nov 1, 2007 - Business & Economics - 401 pages

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.

Contents

• The German agrarian organization 3 Settlement: 11
• The Russian Mir its effects on economic life and: 21
• THE ORIGIN OF SEIGNIORIAL PROPRIETORSHIP: 51
• THE MANOR: 65
• THE POSITION OF THE PEASANTS IN VARI: 74
• PRINCIPAL FORMS OF THE ECONOMIC: 115
• STAGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY: 122
• THE CRAFT GUILDS: 136
• THE ORIGIN OF THE EUROPEAN GUILDS: 144
• DISINTEGRATION OF THE GUILDS AND DEVEL: 153
• SHOP PRODUCTION THE FACTORY AND: 162
• munal establishments 165 private establishments: 169
• Obstacles to development of shop industry into: 175
• POINTS OF DEPARTURE IN THE DEVELOP: 195
• FORMS OF ORGANIZATION OF TRANSPORTA: 202
• C The Trade of the Fairs: 220
• MERCANTILE GUILDS: 230
• MONEY AND MONETARY HISTORY: 236
• BANKING AND DEALINGS IN MONEY IN: 254
• INTERESTS IN THE PRECAPITALISTIC PERIOD: 267
• THE MEANING AND PRESUPPOSITIONS: 275
• THE FIRST GREAT SPECULATIVE CRISES: 286
• FREE WHOLESALE TRADE: 292
• COLONIAL POLICY FROM THE SIXTEENTH: 298
• CITIZENSHIP: 315
• THE RATIONAL STATE: 338
• THE EVOLUTION OF THE CAPITALISTIC: 352
• NOTES: 371
• INDEX OF NAMES: 383

About the author

Max Weber, a German political economist, legal historian, and sociologist, had an impact on the social sciences that is difficult to overestimate. According to a widely held view, he was the founder of the modern way of conceptualizing society and thus the modern social sciences. His major interest was the process of rationalization, which characterizes Western civilization---what he called the "demystification of the world." This interest led him to examine the three types of domination or authority that characterize hierarchical relationships: charismatic, traditional, and legal. It also led him to the study of bureaucracy; all of the world's major religions; and capitalism, which he viewed as a productof the Protestant ethic. With his contemporary, the French sociologist Emile Durkheim---they seem not to have known each other's work---he created modern sociology.

Bibliographic information

• Title: General Economic History; Cosimo classics
• Author: Max Weber
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Cosimo, Inc., 2007
• ISBN: 1602069727, 9781602069725
• Length: 401 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Economic History; Political Science / Political Economy