Law in Economy and Society

448 Pages·1954·16.371 MB·English

by  Max Weber

THE 20TH CENTURY LEGAL PHILOSOPHY SERIES
VI
MAX WEBER ON LAW IN ECONOMY
AND SOCIETY

20TH CENTURY LEGAL PHILOSOPHY SERIES: VOL. VI
MAX WEBER
on
Law in Economy and Society
Mow Wftb&r
EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND ANNOTATIONS BY
MAX RHEINSTEIN
Max Pam Professor of Comparative Law
University of Chicago Law School
TRANSLATION FROM
Max Weber, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, Second Edition (1925)
BY
EDWARD SHILS
Professor of Sociology
Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
AND
MAX RHEINSTEIN
CAMBRIDGE • MASSACHUSETTS
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1954
COPYRIGHT, 1954
BY THE PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
Distributed in Great Britain by
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The publication of this volume is financed by the publication funds
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EDITORIAL COMMITTEE OF THE
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS
Honorary Chairman
John H. Wigmore (deceased, 1943), Northwestern University
Jerome Hall, Indiana University, Chairman
Edmond N. Cahn, New York University
Lon L. Fuller, Harvard University
George W. Goble, University of Illinois
Edward A. Hogan, Jr., Hastings College of Law
Josef L. Kunz, University of Toledo
Edwin W. Patterson, Columbia University
Harold G. Reuschlein, Villanova College
Max Rheinstein, University of Chicago
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