Introduction -- Nineteenth Century German Political Economy -- Max Weber and Becoming a Political Economist. 1890-1900 -- Max Weber and Becoming a Social Economist. 1900-1910 -- Max Weber and Sozial Ökonomik. 1910-1920 -- Max Weber's Social Economics. A Path Not Taken.

"The Young Max Weber and German Social Democracy examines the formative years of a classic social thinker once called the 'bourgeois Marx' from the standpoint of his relationship to the foremost working-class organization of his time. It argues that Weber's early engagement with the standpoint...