General Economic History

General Economic HistoryThis book, the last work of the great German sociologist and historian Max Weber (18641920), is based on a series of lectures he delivered in 191920. The present volume brings together major ideas that explain economic life and change. Beginning with descriptions and analyses of the early agrarian systems, Part One takes the reader through the manorial system, the guilds, and early capitalism as developed on plantations and other estates. Part Two

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