Weber's the protestant ethic as hypothetical narrative of original accumulation

Journal of Classical Sociology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 11-30

  Breiner, Peter ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Capitalism; Capitalist spirit; Ideal type; Marginalism; Smith; Weber

Indexed keywords

EID: 30444459467     PISSN: 1468795X     EISSN: 17412897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468795X05050036     Document Type: Review

References (25)

1. Beetham, David (1987) 'Mosca, Pareto and Weber: A Historical Comparsion', in Wolfgang Mommsen and Jürgen Osterhammel (eds) Max Weber and His Contemporaries. London: Allen & Unwin.
2. Blaug, Mark (1985) Economic Theory in Retrospect. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
3. Collins, Randall (1986a) 'Weber's Last Theory of Capitalism', in Weberian Sociological Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
4. Collins, R. (1986b) 'Weber and Schumpeter: Toward a General Sociology of Capitalism', in Weberian Sociological Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
5. Goldman, Harvey (1988) Max Weber and Thomas Mann: Calling and the Shaping of the Self. Berkeley: University of California Press.
6. Hennis, Wilhelm (1988a) 'Max Weber's Theme: "Personality and the Life Orders" ', in Max Weber: Essays in Reconstruction. London: Allen & Unwin.
7. Hennis, Wilhelm (1988b) 'Max Weber and the Political Economy of the German Historical School', in Max Weber: Essays in Reconstruction. London: Allen & Unwin.
8. Ingham, Geoffrey (2003) 'Schumpeter and Weber on the Institutions of Capitalism: Solving Swedberg's "Puzzle" ', Journal of Classical Sociology 3(3): 297-309.
9. Loader, Colin (2001) 'Puritans and Jews: Weber, Sombart and the Transvaluators of Modern Society', Canadian Journal of 'Sociology 26(4): 635-53.
10. MacKinnon, M.H. (1993). 'The Longevity of the Weber Thesis: A Critique of the Critics', in Hartmut Lehmann and Guenther Roth (eds) Weber's Protestant Ethic: Origins, Evidence, Contexts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
11. Marshall, Gordon (1982) In Search of the Spirit of Capitalism. New York: Columbia University Press.
12. Marx, Karl (1977) Capital, trans. Ben Fowkes. New York: Random House.
13. Menger, Carl (1950) Principles of Economics, trans. James Dingwall and Bert Hoselitz. Glencoe, IL: Free Press.
14. Parkin, Frank (1988) Max Weber. London: Routledge.
15. Perelman, Michael (2000) The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
16. Poggi, Gianfranco (1983) Calvinism and the Capitalist Spirit: Max Weber's Protestant Ethic. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
17. Scaff, Lawrence (1989) 'Weber before Weberian Sociology', in Keith Tribe (ed.) Reading Weber. London: Routledge.
18. Schumpeter, Joseph (1993) The Theory of Economic Development. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction.
19. Smith, Adam (1976). The Wealth of Nations. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
20. Swedberg, Richard (1998) Max Weber and the Idea of Economic Sociology. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
21. Swedberg, Richard (2002) 'The Economic Sociology of Capitalism: Weber and Schumpeter', Journal of Classical Sociology 2(3): 227-55.
22. Weber, Max (1949) 'Objectivity' in Social Science and Social Policy', in The Methodology of the Social Sciences, trans. and ed. Edward A. Shils and Henry A. Finch. New York: Free Press.
23. Weber, Max (1989) 'Developmental Tendencies in the Situation of East Elbian Rural Labourers', in K. Tribe (ed.) Reading Weber. London: Routledge.
24. Weber, Max (2002) The Protestant Ethic and the 'Spirit' of Capitalism and Other Writings, trans., ed. and Introduction Peter Baehr and Gordon C. Wells. New York: Penguin.
25. Zarat, David (1993) 'The Use and Abuse of Textual Data', in H. Lehmann and G. Roth (eds) Weber's Protestant Ethic: Origins, Evidence, Contexts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.