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Article: MAX WEBER AND THE IDEA OF ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY.(Review)
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- Journal of Economic Issues
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- December 1, 1999
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MAX WEBER AND THE IDEA OF ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY. By Richard Swedberg. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp. 315. $29.95 (cloth).
With all that has been written about Max Weber over the years, it is hard to imagine that there is much left to say. However, that is precisely the problem identified by Richard Swedberg in his detailed look at the thought of the German economist/sociologist, Max We Weber and the Idea of Economic Sociology. Or rather, Swedberg argues that all that has been previously written by social scientists--sociologists, economists, economic historians, political scientists, etc.--has tended to focus only on those elements of Weber ...