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The Cambridge companion to Weber / edited by Stephen Turner. - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000. - xx, 288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents
Introduction; Stephen P. Turner
Part I. Rationality, Rationalization, and Psychology:
1. Rationality, economy, and society Jon Elster;
2. Rationalization and culture Alan Sica;
3. Psychophysics of culture Wolfgang Schluchter;
Part II. Politics and Culture:
4. The rule of man over man: politics, power and legitimation Peter Lassman;
5. Weber on the cultural situation of the modern age Lawrence A. Scaff;
6. Global capitalism and multiethnicity: Max Weber then and now Guenther Roth;
7. Constitutional Caesarism: Weber's politics in their German context Sven Eliaeson;
Part III. Religions and their Economic Ethics:
8. Max Weber's Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Alistair Hamilton;
9. Max Weber's Orient John Love;
10. Max Weber's Ancient Judaism John Love;
Part IV. Law and Economics:
11. Weber as legal historian Harold J. Berman and Charles J. Reid, Jr;
12. From agrarian history to cross-cultural comparisons: Weber on Greco-Roman antiquity Wilfried Nippel;
13. Max Weber as economist and economic historian Stanley L. Engerman
Bibliography;
Index.



ISBN: 0521561493 052156753X (pbk.)

LCCN: 99015846

Subjects--Personal Names:
Weber, Max, 1864-1920.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sociology--History.

LC Class. No.: HM479.W42 / C36 2000

Dewey Class. No.: 301.09 TUR-2