Historical preface to max weber, “stock and commodity exchanges”

Theory and Society

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 289-304

  Lestition, Steven ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1023/A:1007048505337     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. See Rudolf Hermann Meyer, Politische Gründer und die Corruption in Deutschland (Leipzig: E. Bidder, 1877), and Frederick Engels, “The Socialism of Mr. Bismarck,” Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Collected Works 24 (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1989), 272-280 [originally published in L’Egalité no. 7 & 8 (March 3 and 24, 1880)].
2. See Rudolf Hermann Meyer, Politische Gründer und die Corruption in Deutschland (Leipzig: E. Bidder, 1877), and Frederick Engels, “The Socialism of Mr. Bismarck,” Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Collected Works 24 (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1989), 272-280 [originally published in L’Egalité no. 7 & 8 (March 3 and 24, 1880)].
3. See Rudolf Hermann Meyer, Politische Gründer und die Corruption in Deutschland (Leipzig: E. Bidder, 1877), and Frederick Engels, “The Socialism of Mr. Bismarck,” Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Collected Works 24 (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1989), 272-280 [originally published in L’Egalité no. 7 & 8 (March 3 and 24, 1880)].
4. Hans Rosenberg, “Political and Social Consequences of the Great Depression of 1873-1896 in Central Europe,” Economic History Review 13 (1943): 58-73, and his Grosse Depression und Bismarckzeit: Wirtschaftsablauf, Gesellschaft und Politik in Mitteleuropa (Berlin, 1967).
5. Hans Rosenberg, “Political and Social Consequences of the Great Depression of 1873-1896 in Central Europe,” Economic History Review 13 (1943): 58-73, and his Grosse Depression und Bismarckzeit: Wirtschaftsablauf, Gesellschaft und Politik in Mitteleuropa (Berlin, 1967).
6. For Bismarck’s strategy in the mid-1880s and after, see Lothar Gall, Bismarck: Der weisse Revolutionär (Frankfurt am Main and Berlin: Verlag Ullstein; Propyläen Verlag, 1980), 597-607. The stages of the development of the legislation on the securities and commodity exchanges in the Reichstag are outlined in Nationalliberale Partei, ed. Die Reichstags-Session 1895/96. 9. Legislaturperiode. Erster Abschnitt: 3 Dezember 1895 bis 2 Juli 1896 (Berlin: Centralbureau der nationalliberalen Partei, 1896), 239-240.
7. For Bismarck’s strategy in the mid-1880s and after, see Lothar Gall, Bismarck: Der weisse Revolutionär (Frankfurt am Main and Berlin: Verlag Ullstein; Propyläen Verlag, 1980), 597-607. The stages of the development of the legislation on the securities and commodity exchanges in the Reichstag are outlined in Nationalliberale Partei, ed. Die Reichstags-Session 1895/96. 9. Legislaturperiode. Erster Abschnitt: 3 Dezember 1895 bis 2 Juli 1896 (Berlin: Centralbureau der nationalliberalen Partei, 1896), 239-240.
8. Nationalliberale Partei, ed. Reichstags-Session, 3-5 and J. C. G. Röhl, Germany without Bismarck: The Crisis of Government in the Second Reich, 1890-1900 (London: BT. Batsford, Ltd., 1967).
9. Nationalliberale Partei, ed. Reichstags-Session, 3-5 and J. C. G. Röhl, Germany without Bismarck: The Crisis of Government in the Second Reich, 1890-1900 (London: BT. Batsford, Ltd., 1967).
10. Nationalliberale Partei, ed. Reichstags-Session, 240. The academics on the commission included Professors Gustav Schmoller (Berlin) and Gustav Cohn (Göttingen).
11. Wolfgang Mommsen, “Einleitung,” in Max Weber, Landarbeiterfrage, Nationalstaat und Volkswirtschaftspolitik: Schriften und Reden 1892-1899, ed. Wolfgang Mommsen with Rita Aldenhoff. Max Weber Gesamtausgabe, I, 4/1 (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr [Paul Siebeck], 1993), 2-7.
12. Ibid., 5-7, and Röhl, Germany after Bismarck, 75 ff.
13. Ibid., 5-7, and Röhl, Germany after Bismarck, 75 ff.
14. Nationalliberale Partei, ed. Reichstags-Session, 242-245, 284.
15. Ibid., 249, 254-265.
16. Mommsen, “Einleitung,” Weber Gesamtausgabe, I, 4/1 (1993): 36, 41-42.
17. Wolfgang Mommsen, Max Weber und die deutsche Politik, 1890-1920, 2nd rev. edition (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr [Paul Siebeck], 1974), 81. For portions of a letter to his wife describing his interactions with the agrarian representatives, see Marianne Weber, Max Weber: A Biography, transl. and ed. Harry Zohn, with a new introduction by Guenther Roth (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1988), 198.
18. Wolfgang Mommsen, Max Weber und die deutsche Politik, 1890-1920, 2nd rev. edition (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr [Paul Siebeck], 1974), 81. For portions of a letter to his wife describing his interactions with the agrarian representatives, see Marianne Weber, Max Weber: A Biography, transl. and ed. Harry Zohn, with a new introduction by Guenther Roth (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1988), 198.
19. Wilhelm Hennis, “Eine ‘Wissenschaft vom Menschen’: Max Weber und die deutsche Nationalökonomie der Historischen Schule,” in Hennis, Max Webers Fragestellung: Studien zur Biographie des Werks (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr [Paul Siebeck], 1987), 117-166, and Richard Swedberg, Max Weber and the Idea of Economic Sociology (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998), chapter 6.
20. Wilhelm Hennis, “Eine ‘Wissenschaft vom Menschen’: Max Weber und die deutsche Nationalökonomie der Historischen Schule,” in Hennis, Max Webers Fragestellung: Studien zur Biographie des Werks (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr [Paul Siebeck], 1987), 117-166, and Richard Swedberg, Max Weber and the Idea of Economic Sociology (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998), chapter 6.
21. This was soon to become the third chapter of a larger work, “On the History of Trading Companies in the Middle Ages, According to South-European Sources,” (1889).
22. These included leaders of the National Liberal Party like Benningsen and Miquel and high officials in Bismarck’s government like the one-time Bürgermeister of Berlin and Finance Minister under Bismarck, until 1879, Arthur Hobrecht, See Dirk Käsler, Max Weber: An Introduction to his Life and Work, transi. Philippa Hurd (Oxford: Basil Blackwood; Polity Press, 1988), 3.
23. Ibid., 2-6.
24. Mommsen, “Einleitung,” Weber Gesamtausgabe, I, 4/1 (1993): 1.
25. Ibid., 1, 16-20.
26. In accepting the offer to move to Freiburg, Webei first factored in the chances (through inquiries with the powerful head of Prussian academic administration, Althoff) that an appointment such as he truly hoped for, a professorship in commercial law at the University of Berlin, was not gcing to materialize in the near term. Ibid., 39-40.
27. Marianne Weber, Max Weber, 200.
28. Mommsen, “Einleitung,” Weber Gesamtausgabe, I, 4/1 (1993): 39-41.
29. Max Weber, “Die Ergebnisse der deutschen Börsenenquete,” Zeitschrift für das gesammte Handelsrecht 43 (N.S. 28): 1/2 (1894): 83-98.
30. Knut Borchardt, “Editorischer Bericht,” in Max Weber, Börsenwesen: Schriften und Reden 1893-1898, ed. Knut Borchardt, with Cornelia Meyer-Stoll. Max Weber Gesamtausgabe, Sect. I, 5/1 (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohz [Paul Siebeck], forthcoming), 11-18, 496-500. I wish to thank the editor for sharing proof-pages of these editorial prefaces prior to the appearance of the volume.
31. Knut Borchardt, “Editorischer Bericht,” in Max Weber, Börsenwesen: Schriften und Reden 1893-1898, ed. Knut Borchardt, with Cornelia Meyer-Stoll. Max Weber Gesamtausgabe, Sect. I, 5/1 (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohz [Paul Siebeck], forthcoming), 11-18, 496-500. I wish to thank the editor for sharing proof-pages of these editorial prefaces prior to the appearance of the volume.
32. Cited in Mommsen, “Einleitung,” Weber Gesamtausgabe, I, 4/1 (1993): 27. The Verein, for instance, took the conservative view of the East Elbian agrarian question, favoring state measures to uphold the large estates and to stem German laborers’ flight from the land, ibid., 17.
33. Cited in Mommsen, “Einleitung,” Weber Gesamtausgabe, I, 4/1 (1993): 27. The Verein, for instance, took the conservative view of the East Elbian agrarian question, favoring state measures to uphold the large estates and to stem German laborers’ flight from the land, ibid., 17.
34. Ibid., 27-33, 38.
35. Weber’s 1894 review of Naumann’s “Was heisst Christlich-Sozial?" published that same year, is cited in Borchardt, “Editorischer Bericht,” Weber Gesamtausgabe I, 5/1 (forthcoming): 13-14. Weber was also critical cf the way in which Naumann wagered on getting important support for his movement from what Weber viewed as a “declining" social group - small rural landholders, the object of state resettlement policies in the east - and not focusing on “rising" and self-conscious social groups (i.e., presumably the bourgeoisie and industrial workers). See Mommsen, “Einleitung,” Weber Gesamtausgabe I, 4/1 (1993): 37.
36. Weber’s 1894 review of Naumann’s “Was heisst Christlich-Sozial?" published that same year, is cited in Borchardt, “Editorischer Bericht,” Weber Gesamtausgabe I, 5/1 (forthcoming): 13-14. Weber was also critical cf the way in which Naumann wagered on getting important support for his movement from what Weber viewed as a “declining" social group - small rural landholders, the object of state resettlement policies in the east - and not focusing on “rising" and self-conscious social groups (i.e., presumably the bourgeoisie and industrial workers). See Mommsen, “Einleitung,” Weber Gesamtausgabe I, 4/1 (1993): 37.
37. Mommsen, M. Weber u. dt. Politik, 74-75. Naumann’s extensive review of Weber’s Inaugural Address (originally entitled “Nationality in Economic Life") in the journal Die Hilfe ended with the conclusion that “a socialism capable of governing must pursue a politics of German national self-interest (muss deutschnational sein).
38. Borchardt, “Editorischer Bericht,” Weber Gesamtausgabe I, 5/1 (forthcoming): 12, 14-15, 496-497. Borchardt cites no figures on the size of the printing of Weber’s pamphlets, nor whether they went through more than one edition.
39. Ibid., 14-15, 497.
40. Cohn was one of the founders, in 1872, of the Verein für Sozialpolitik: he taught at Göttingen from 1884 until his death in 1919. S ee the Neue Deutsche Biographie, ed. Historische Kommission bei der Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 3 (Munich, 1966): 315. The Volkswirthschaftlichen Gesellschaft in Berlin, for example, published a series of pamphlets (Volkswirthschaftliche Zeitfragen [Contemporary National Economic Policy Questions] that included ones on the draft of the exchange law and on the final bill that was passed.
41. Cohn was one of the founders, in 1872, of the Verein für Sozialpolitik: he taught at Göttingen from 1884 until his death in 1919. S ee the Neue Deutsche Biographie, ed. Historische Kommission bei der Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 3 (Munich, 1966): 315. The Volkswirthschaftlichen Gesellschaft in Berlin, for example, published a series of pamphlets (Volkswirthschaftliche Zeitfragen [Contemporary National Economic Policy Questions] that included ones on the draft of the exchange law and on the final bill that was passed.
42. Cohn was one of the founders, in 1872, of the Verein für Sozialpolitik: he taught at Göttingen from 1884 until his death in 1919. S ee the Neue Deutsche Biographie, ed. Historische Kommission bei der Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 3 (Munich, 1966): 315. The Volkswirthschaftlichen Gesellschaft in Berlin, for example, published a series of pamphlets (Volkswirthschaftliche Zeitfragen [Contemporary National Economic Policy Questions] that included ones on the draft of the exchange law and on the final bill that was passed.
43. Cohn was one of the founders, in 1872, of the Verein für Sozialpolitik: he taught at Göttingen from 1884 until his death in 1919. S ee the Neue Deutsche Biographie, ed. Historische Kommission bei der Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 3 (Munich, 1966): 315. The Volkswirthschaftlichen Gesellschaft in Berlin, for example, published a series of pamphlets (Volkswirthschaftliche Zeitfragen [Contemporary National Economic Policy Questions] that included ones on the draft of the exchange law and on the final bill that was passed.
44. See Weber’s comments in his initial article for the Zeitschrift für das gesammte Handelsrecht, 43 (N.S. 28), 1/2 (1894): 90.
45. See Gustav Cohn, “Zur Börsenreform,” Deutsche Rundschau 69 (1891): 216 where he terms the fluctuation of different prices, searching for the right balance of profit and security, a “continuing tossing of wavelets" [ein fortwährendes Wellengekräusel] - exactly the same metaphor Weber will later employ in his own pamphlet (p. 366).
46. Cohn, “Zur Börsenreform,” 206-208.
47. Nationalliberale Partei, ed. Reichstags-Session, 244.
48. Mommsen, M. Weber u. dt. Politik, 81.