Title: Ideal-type, institutional and evolutionary analyses of the origins of capitalism: Max Weber and Thorstein Veblen
Abstract: In considering the force of Weber's argument concerning the origins of capitalism, it is useful to contrast it with the less-known but in many ways comparable account developed by the American thinker Thorstein Veblen. Weber and Veblen were contemporaries. They were both economists by training and profession, who contributed to the development of sociology and saw themselves as sociologists at different times in their careers, and neither of them was content to echo the prevailing thought and opinion.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-07-10
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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