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Weber's position as the founder of sociology makes the work an importqant reading to the study of capatalism and the ideas of economics. A great number of the details and references that he provides are also worthwhile.

The bad news is that this is very much a German academic work. This means that a serious reading is really a slog through those footnotes and somwhat heavy reading. If you are less than a serious student, you might prefer one of the summaries of Weber's work, or a book about him.

Other necessary critism is that repeated by many who believed that capitalism started earlier than his industrial revolution and their disagreement with his relying so strongly on the labor theory of value. Last but not least his conclusions about necessary social adjuncts (e. g. the Calvinist work ethic) to economic growth are denied by modern history in China (after 1980) and India (after 1991). ( )

Romanian version.

Weber's classic study of the psychological conditions which made possible the development of capitalist civilization.

Every student should read this book. This book can explain why our world is the way it is. ( )