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In General Economic History Max Weber focuses on the industrial enterprise for the provision of everyday wants, oriented toward profitability by means of rational capital accounting, as the institutional foundation of modern Western capitalism. This type of enterprise integrates into one institutional complex a constellation of six factors, including: formally free labor; free market trade; appropriation of the physical means of production; rational commercial practices; rational production of technology; and calculable law adjudicated and administered by the state. General Economic History traces the historical development of each of these factors from their informal rational points of origin through the feudal era to their emergence as formal rational elements in the modern capitalist industrial enterprise. The chapters on the history of modern citizenship and the modern rational state are of special significance as otherwise unavailable resources for an integrated view of Weber's work.The new introduction by Ira J. Cohen is an original scholarly work of interest to all who study Max Weber's conception of modern Western capitalism.Theessay situates the institutional and cultural aspects of Weber's view of modern capitalism in the context of his overall vision of the emergence of formal rationality in the Western world. Both aspects of modern capitalism are shown to be defined by economic formal rationality, a type of orientation which is distinct from the legal formal rationality characteristic of Weber's conception of modern bureaucracy.

Table of Contents:
One: Household, Clan, Village and Manor 1; I: The Agricultural Organization and the Problem of Agrarian Communism 1; II: Property Systems and Social Groups; III: The Origin of Seigniorial Proprietorship; IV: The Manor; V: The Position of the Peasants in Various Western Countries Before the Entrance of Capitalism 1; VI: Capitalistic Development of The Manor; Two: Industry and Mining Down to the Beginning of the Capitalistic Development; VII: Principal Forms of The Economic Organization of Industry 1; VIII: Stages in the Development of Industry and Mining; IX: The Craft Guilds; X: The Origin of the European Guilds; XI: Disintegration of the Guilds and Development of the Domestic System 1; XII: Shop Production. The Factory and Its Fore-Runners 1; XIII: Mining 1 Prior to the Development of Modern Capitalism; Three: Commerce and Exchange in the Pre-Capitalistic Age 1; XIV: Points of Departure in the Development of Commerce; XV: Technical Requisites for the Transportation of Goods 1; XVI: Forms of Organization of Transportation and of Commerce; XVII: Forms of Commercial Enterprise; XVIII: Mercantile Guilds 1; XIX: Money and Monetary History 1; XX: Banking and Dealings in Money in the Pre-Capitalistic Age; XXI: Interests in the Pre-Capitalistic Period; Four: The Obigin of Modern Capitalism; XXII: The Meaning and Presuppositions of Modern Capitalism; XXIII: The External Facts in the Evolution of Capitalism 1; XXIV: The First Great Speculative Crises 1; XXV: Free Wholesale Trade l; XXVI: Colonial Policy From the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century 1; XXVII: The Development of Industrial Technique 1; XXVIII: Citizenship 1; XXIX: The Rational State; XXX: The Evolution of the Capitalistic Spirit
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About the Book

In General Economic History Max Weber focuses on the industrial enterprise for the provision of everyday wants, oriented toward profitability by means of rational capital accounting, as the institutional foundation of modern Western capitalism. This type of enterprise integrates into one institutional complex a constellation of six factors, including: formally free labor; free market trade; appropriation of the physical means of production; rational commercial practices; rational production of technology; and calculable law adjudicated and administered by the state. General Economic History traces the historical development of each of these factors from their informal rational points of origin through the feudal era to their emergence as formal rational elements in the modern capitalist industrial enterprise. The chapters on the history of modern citizenship and the modern rational state are of special significance as otherwise unavailable resources for an integrated view of Weber's work.The new introduction by Ira J. Cohen is an original scholarly work of interest to all who study Max Weber's conception of modern Western capitalism.Theessay situates the institutional and cultural aspects of Weber's view of modern capitalism in the context of his overall vision of the emergence of formal rationality in the Western world. Both aspects of modern capitalism are shown to be defined by economic formal rationality, a type of orientation which is distinct from the legal formal rationality characteristic of Weber's conception of modern bureaucracy.

Table of Contents:
One: Household, Clan, Village and Manor 1; I: The Agricultural Organization and the Problem of Agrarian Communism 1; II: Property Systems and Social Groups; III: The Origin of Seigniorial Proprietorship; IV: The Manor; V: The Position of the Peasants in Various Western Countries Before the Entrance of Capitalism 1; VI: Capitalistic Development of The Manor; Two: Industry and Mining Down to the Beginning of the Capitalistic Development; VII: Principal Forms of The Economic Organization of Industry 1; VIII: Stages in the Development of Industry and Mining; IX: The Craft Guilds; X: The Origin of the European Guilds; XI: Disintegration of the Guilds and Development of the Domestic System 1; XII: Shop Production. The Factory and Its Fore-Runners 1; XIII: Mining 1 Prior to the Development of Modern Capitalism; Three: Commerce and Exchange in the Pre-Capitalistic Age 1; XIV: Points of Departure in the Development of Commerce; XV: Technical Requisites for the Transportation of Goods 1; XVI: Forms of Organization of Transportation and of Commerce; XVII: Forms of Commercial Enterprise; XVIII: Mercantile Guilds 1; XIX: Money and Monetary History 1; XX: Banking and Dealings in Money in the Pre-Capitalistic Age; XXI: Interests in the Pre-Capitalistic Period; Four: The Obigin of Modern Capitalism; XXII: The Meaning and Presuppositions of Modern Capitalism; XXIII: The External Facts in the Evolution of Capitalism 1; XXIV: The First Great Speculative Crises 1; XXV: Free Wholesale Trade l; XXVI: Colonial Policy From the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century 1; XXVII: The Development of Industrial Technique 1; XXVIII: Citizenship 1; XXIX: The Rational State; XXX: The Evolution of the Capitalistic Spirit


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780878556908
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Transaction Publishers
  • Edition: New ed
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0878556907
  • Publisher Date: 30 Jan 1981
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 488
  • Series Title: Social Science Classics Series
  • Weight: 793 gr


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