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Max Weber as an Economist: Revisiting Max Weber’s Legacy 100 Years after His Passing
Marek Louzek
- Vol. 140, Iss: 2, pp 205-222
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In this paper, the authors present Max Weber as an economist and as a social scientist and discuss Weber's relations to economics, philosophy and sociology, showing that Weber has more in common with economists than it might seem at first sight.Abstract:
This article presents Max Weber as an economist and as a social scientist. Weber’s relations to economics, philosophy and sociology are discussed. Max Weber has more in common with economists than it might seem at first sight. His principle of value neutrality has become the foundation of the methodology of social sciences, including economics. The second point shared by Max Weber with standard economics is methodological individualism. The third point which a modern economist can learn from Max Weber is the concept of the ideal type.read more
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Understanding the 'New Turkey' through Max Weber's category of Caesarism
Banu Turnaoğlu,E. Fuat Keyman +1 more
TL;DR: In this article , the shift from a parliamentarian to a presidential system, bestowing Turkish premier Erdoğan with unrestrained executive powers, has manifested a type of 'pure', unrestrained Caesarism that Weber associated with and criticized in Otto von Bismarck, reflecting Weber's optimism that strong parliamentarism could remedy the threats of authoritarianism.
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