Index

Page numbers are given in bold for German terms discussed in the Translator’s Appendix or in footnotes to the text.

• acquisition: gain, 126, 128, 139, 140, 141, 149, 152–53, 156, 167, 169–71, 178–79, 180–82, 186, 193, 197, 206, 211, 214, 235, 247, 253, 258, 270, 271–73, 274, 281–82, 319, 321, 333, 364, 448, 450, 452, 453, 465–66; defined, 179–83; distinction between acquisitive activity and acquisitive enterprise, 190
• action, 29, 54, 55, 74, 75, 79, 81–120, 123–33; political action, 39, 137; social action, 40, 42, 47, 55, 64, 65, 69, 74–75, 83, 88, 91, 95, 99–101, 107, 110, 120, 203, 210, 335, 343, 468, 489, 491; economic action, 44, 54–55, 56, 58, 65, 74, 76, 107–9, 139, 143–282, 287, 334, 370, 464, 468, 469
• Agevall, Ola, 459, 471
• Anter, Andreas, 12, 472, 498
• Appropriation, appropriation, 67–68, 76, 123–26, 129, 136, 141, 155, 158, 198, 202, 207–79, 212, 215, 227–60, 264–65, 279, 283, 329, 330, 332, 333, 346–47, 349, 353, 362–68, 363, 376–77, 383, 389–90, 393, 397–99, 403, 416, 418, 426–47, 430, 435, 440–41, 455–57, 460, 462
• Arbeitsteilung, 461
• Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik, 12, 14, 16, 27, 34, 77
• authority, 127, 156, 192, 286, 309, 313, 317, 335–38, 345, 347, 357, 359, 368, 375–76, 381–82, 391, 393, 403, 405, 419, 438, 439, 471–73
• Ay, Karl-Ludwig, 34

• Backhouse, Roger E., 463
• Baehr, Peter, 498
• Baier, Horst, 36
• banks, banking, 141, 185, 193, 245–47, 261, 275–78, 292, 303–4, 312, 340, 455
• Baumgarten, Otto, 20
• Becker, Carl Heinrich, 398
• Bedarf, 462
• Bedarfsdeckungswirtschaft, 144, 462
• Bedürfnis, 462
• Below, Georg von, 368
• Benham, Frederic, 28, 33
• Beschaffung, Beschaffungsmittel, 68, 460–61, 463–64
• Betrieb, 464
• Bimetallism, 295
• Böhm-Bawerk, Eugen von, 44–45, 57, 142, 150, 460, 464, 474–75, 487
• Bonfig, Franz, 497
• Borchardt, Knut, 1, 34, 37, 56, 73, 293, 305, 310, 312, 314, 497
• Brauch, 464
• Brentano, Franz, 467
• Brentano, Lujo, 23
• Bruhns, Hinnerk, 23, 43, 498
• Bruun, Hans-Henrik, 465
• Bücher, Karl, 5, 13, 17–18, 21, 22, 46, 142–43, 190, 212, 216, 225, 230, 235, 251, 461, 470
• Bulatoff, Ronald M., 29
• bureaucracy, 29, 48, 66–67, 327, 335–36, 336, 345–54, 348–53, 357, 396, 402, 408, 435, 437, 446
• Burke, Martin J., 2
• business education, 13, 14

• calculation, capitalist, 186, 202–3, 210, 215, 245, 270, 279, 281–82; defined, 179–81
• calculation, economic, 140, 182
• calculation, in kind (in natura), 175, 178, 191–201
• calculation, monetary, 166, 172–73, 178, 198; defined, 173–74, 201–3
• capital, 178, 236, 260, 266, 283, 463–64, 476; defined, 183–84; capital market defined, 185; capital goods, 269
• capitalism, 6, 12, 13, 15, 18, 48, 56, 140, 142, 153, 190, 198, 212, 260, 284, 325–37, 351–52, 369–73, 443, 469
• Carlaw, Robin, 29
• Cassirer Seminar, Hamburg, 34
• Chance, 57, 67, 101, 103, 460, 464
• charisma, 48, 94, 97, 250, 268, 335–37, 342–43, 360, 374, 374–90, 401–9, 426, 428–31, 438, 456
• Chayanov, Alexander V., 470
• China, 164, 210, 225–26, 255, 261–62, 265, 283, 287–91, 310, 314–20, 324, 327, 336, 356, 359, 367, 371, 375, 381, 384, 393–98, 417, 422, 425
• class, social, v, 75, 91, 104, 141, 234, 248–49, 293, 323–34, 389, 417, 428, 431–32, 443–57
• collegiality, 411–17
• commercial economy, 203, 206, 209, 249, 271, 291–92, 329
• conduct, 400, 469
• conflict, competition, contest, 117–20, 121, 155, 182, 201–2, 403, 417, 452–53, 473
• contingency, 460, 464
• credit, 167–69, 246, 276–77, 304
• currency, 162, 292–93
• custom, 464

• democracy, direct, 435, 436, 437, 439
• democracy, Greek, 410
• democracy, plebiscitary, 337, 406–49, 414, 430, 441–42, 444, 447
• democracy, representative, 433–34, 437–41, 442, 447
• deutend, 459
• Deutung, deuten, 465, 485
• developmental path, stages, 215, 326
• Dietzel, Heinrich, 63
• Diplom Volkswirt, 13
• discipline, 134, 202, 244, 280, 336, 348, 350–51, 404, 408, 423
• distribution, 461
• division of labour, 68, 140–41, 143, 461, 462, 474; defined, 210, 217–21
• domestic industry, 467
• domination, 135, 471–73
• Durkheim, Emile, 50, 64, 474, 483

• education, training, 118, 137, 146, 158, 205, 250, 264, 324, 359, 363, 373, 395, 403, 422, 450–52, 454, 456
• effective demand, 202
• empathy, 81, 341, 465
• enterprise (as quality of human activity), 135, 141, 180, 190, 198, 213–15, 226, 232, 270, 272, 274, 278, 348, 350, 464, 465, 467
• entrepreneur, 180–81, 188, 190, 200, 214, 231, 243–47, 260, 266, 303, 312, 318, 333, 349, 395, 399, 435, 446, 452–53, 456
• Erfahrung, 465
• Erlebnis, 465
• Erwerb, 144, 149, 152, 178–80, 183, 186, 188, 189, 196–97, 202, 214, 250–51, 260, 266, 279, 284, 319, 325, 362, 450, 465
• Erwerbswirtschaft, 144, 152, 178, 188, 251, 466
• Escherich, Karl, 93
• Eucken, Walter, 29
• Eulenburg, Franz, 305
• Evidenz, 42, 67, 79–80, 87, 466–67
• experience, 465
• expropriation, 76, 136, 234–35, 243–46, 251–52, 261, 283, 329, 403, 422, 424, 462; of workers from means of production, 246

• Fabrik, 464, 467
• Feick, Hildegard, 498
• feudalism, 48, 366, 389–91, 396, 399, 400, 401
• Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 209
• firm, factory, 215, 230, 240–42, 464, 467
• Freiburg, 14, 44, 55, 59
• Freyer, Hans, 59
• Fürsorge, 468, 484

• galleys and proofs for WuG, 40
• Geltung, 468
• Gemeinschaft, 50–53, 61
• George, Stefan, 48, 59, 578
• German Sociological Society, 22, 62
• gerontocracy, 360
• Gerth, Hans H., viii, 31, 33, 471
• Gesellschaft, 5, 50–53, 61, 468, 480, 481
• Gewalt, 472
• Ghosh, Peter, 459, 485, 498
• Gossen, Hermann Heinrich, 45
• Gottl-Ottlilienfeld, Friedrich von, 39, 49, 50, 53–55, 78, 147, 479
• Grenznutzen, Grenznutzlehre, 463, 476
• Grundriss der Sozialökonomik (GdS), 6, 11, 12–22, 36, 41, 46, 49, 57, 63, 70, 139, 142, 196, 461, 468, 476, 479
• Günther, Horst, 472

• Haberler, Gottfired von, 28
• Habermas, Jürgen, viii
• Haller, Karl Ludwig von, 368
• Handeln, 468
• Handlung, 469
• Hanke, Edith, 1, 4, 16, 25, 26, 36, 37, 39, 47, 48, 73, 378, 472, 498
• Harms, Bernhard, 16, 19–20
• Harris, Jose, 52
• Hasbach, Wilhelm, 441
• Haushalt, haushalten, householding, 174, 178, 191–92, 204, 210, 214, 222–23, 235, 251, 255, 469–70, 471
• Hayek, Friedrich von, 28, 30, 31, 33, 58
• Heidelberg, viii, 12, 14, 15, 25, 44, 53, 54, 474
• Heller, Lavinia, 498
• Hellmann, Siegfried, 43
• Henderson, Alexander Morell, 2, 28–32
• Hennis, Wilhelm, 5, 45, 59, 62, 65, 497, 498
• Herkner, Heinrich, 461
• Herrschaft, 4, 22, 24, 38, 47–48, 67, 135, 223, 253, 361, 471–73
• Herrstellung, herschaffen, 473
• Hobbes, Thomas, 61
• Hodge, James, 30–33
• Hodge, William, 28–29
• householding, household economy, 465–66, 469, 470
• Hübinger, Gangolf, 23, 36
• Hutchison, Terence, 29

• ideal type, 12, 85, 97, 98, 153, 342, 473
• Ihering, Rudolf, 107
• Ikeda, Yukihiro, 39
• imputation, 42, 86–87, 96, 98, 106, 127–28, 195–96
• India, 125–26, 223, 225–26, 228, 235, 261–62, 266, 268, 309, 316, 319–20, 324, 327, 364–65, 367, 371, 384–85, 388, 396, 398, 438
• inflation, 305–8
• “influences,” Weber’s, 49, 64
• institution, defined, 133–34
• Instmann, Instleute, 226
• interest on capital, 183–84, 187–88
• interpretation, construal, 465

• Jaffé, Edgar, 14, 15
• Jaffé, Else, 25
• Jaspers, Karl, 49, 77
• Jastrow, Ignaz, 13
• Jellinek, Georg, 12, 48, 473
• Jevons, William Stanley, 463

• Kampf, 117–20, 473
• Kant, Immanuel, 477
• Kathedersozialisten [academic socialists], 199
• Kautsky, Karl, 48
• Keller, Fritz, 20
• Keynes, John Neville, 486
• Knapp, Georg Friedrich, 5, 11, 41, 68, 141, 160, 163–64, 277, 285, 288, 292, 293, 300, 301, 302, 307; digression on Knapp, 309–18
• Knies, Carl, 16, 45, 49, 53, 474, 484
• Knight, Frank, 43, 215
• Koselleck, Reinhart, 472

• labour, optimisation of work performed, 263–67
• Laiz, Álvaro Morcillo, 28, 498
• landownership, 238, 253–56
• law, legality, 133, 134, 141, 149, 158, 159, 163, 170, 177–78, 184, 231, 255, 267, 277, 279, 286, 295, 343–44, 354, 358–59, 406–8, 409–10, 415, 435, 436, 453, 460, 471
• law, sociology of, 133, 354, 408
• Lebensführung, 5, 65, 469
• Lederer, Emil, 27
• legitimacy, 48, 67, 75, 109, 111, 115–17, 335, 339–40, 354, 380, 405, 407, 468
• Legitimität, 67, 471
• Lehr, Julius, 477
• Leistung, 68, 146, 166, 210, 222, 227, 248–49, 263, 450, 462, 474
• Leistungsverteilung, 462
• Leitner, Friedrich, 184
• Lenger, Friedrich, 12, 52
• Lenin, Vladimir Ilich, 208
• Lepsius, M. Rainer, 34, 36
• Lexis, Wilhelm, 17
• Lichtblau, Klaus, 5, 38, 42, 50, 483
• Liefmann, Robert, 39, 47, 50, 55–57, 66, 68, 145, 147, 334, 481
• Lutz, Friedrich, 33

• Machlup, Fritz, 29
• Macht, 471, 472
• Maine, Henry Sumner, 50
• Malthus, Thomas Robert, 202
• management, 36, 55, 66, 68, 69, 141, 151, 152, 189, 207, 210–11, 217, 227, 232, 242–48, 246, 259–60, 276, 308, 328–29, 336, 421–22, 453, 470, 478
• Manhood, Violet, 33
• Marcuse, Herbert, viii
• marginal utility, 95, 103, 153, 157, 168, 174, 176, 181, 187, 191, 195, 200, 289, 463
• Marshall, Alfred, 45, 463
• Marx, Karl, viii, 64, 208, 454
• McGuire, Patricia, 30
• meaning and motivation, 79–81, 88, 100, 106–8, 139, 144
• means and ends, 107, 139, 143, 145–47
• Menger, Carl, 44, 57, 142, 463, 477, 482, 484, 487
• Michels, Roberto, 472
• Mills, C. Wright, vii, 31, 33, 471
• Mirowski, Philip, 33
• Mises, Ludwig von, 29, 34, 163
• Moellendorff, Wichard von, 207
• Mommsen, Wolfgang, 25, 34, 36, 497
• monetary policy, 303–9
• money, money forms, 140, 160–67, 173, 201–2, 275–76, 285–303; paper money, 287, 289
• Mont Pèlerin Society, 33
• Morgenstern, Oskar, 28
• Morikawa, Takemitsu, 53
• Munich, xi, 7, 12, 23, 25, 26, 36, 38, 74

• Naturalwirtschaft, Naturalrechnung, 191–201, 474
• Nau, Heino Heinrich, 63
• needs, 175, 202, 462, 463, 482; Hegel’s “system of needs,” 462
• Neumann, Friedrich Julius, 53
• Neurath, Otto, 197, 199, 464
• Nicholson, Margaret, 33
• Nokkala, Ere Pertti, 498
• Nurkse, Ragnar, 28
• Nutzleistung, 460, 462, 474–77

• Oakes, Guy, 31, 43
• occupation (Beruf), 248–54
• officials, 86, 113, 126, 192, 242, 254, 317, 324, 328, 331, 337, 345–73, 385, 394–95, 401, 403–27, 433–40, 452, 454, 455
• oikos, 224, 231, 371, 469
• oktroyieren, 472
• Oppenheimer, Franz, 60–61, 63, 145, 198
• organisation, 140, 203, 323, 335, 480, 481; defined, 128–31, 157–59, 402
• organisation, communist, 267–69
• organisation, political, 325–26; financing of, 318–23
• Oxford University Press, 33

• Palyi, Melchior, 1, 25, 26, 43
• Parks, Tim, 460
• Parsons, Talcott, viii, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 28–34, 58, 78, 91, 92, 112, 192, 210, 248, 292, 361, 364, 462, 469, 471, 478, 483, 484, 485
• parties, political, 337, 419, 428–33
• Pasquino, Pasquale, 497
• patriarchal relationships, 265
• Peacock, Sir Alan, 28
• Philippovich, Eugen von, 23, 44–46
• planned economy, 203, 205, 208, 304, 330; definition, 207
• Plehwe, Dieter, 33
• Plekhanov, Georgi, 208
• Plenge, Johann, 21
• political economy, 463; “Austrian,” 44–47
• power, 205, 319, 425; defined, 134
• powers, separation of, 368, 370, 411–27, 441–42
• practice, 464
• production, means of, 68, 176–77, 190, 234–35, 265, 321, 460, 463, 464, 473
• profit, profit-making, 465–66
• proof, personal, 374–75, 377, 405–6, 467
• Protestant Social Congress, 22

• rank, social, 383, 390, 392, 393, 396, 401, 403, 411, 417, 418, 436, 444, 447, 448, 455–57
• Rathgen, Karl, 53
• rational economic activity, forms of, 153–57
• rationalisation, 48, 66, 108, 386, 443
• rationality, 54–55, 56, 82, 95, 146, 335
• rationality, formal, 177, 206, 245, 247, 308, 350, 372, 409; formal rationality defined, 172, 201–3; conditions for greatest degree of formal rationality in production, 279–81
• rationality, purposive, 101–3, 107, 139, 148, 269, 338, 487
• rationality, substantive, 172–73, 199, 206, 247, 308
• rationality, value, 101, 173, 265, 269
• regulation, economic, defined, 168–69, 170–72, 216, 259, 284, 304, 330, 372
• Ricardo, David, 463
• Richter, Melvin, 2
• Rickert, Heinrich, 49, 77, 473
• Rodbertus, Johann Carl, 225, 470, 471
• Roscher, Wilhelm, 49
• Roth, Guenther, 2, 3, 6, 7, 28, 36, 112, 480, 483
• routinisation, 337, 378, 387, 389
• rule, bureaucratic, 48
• rule, charismatic, 48, 336, 342–43, 374–78
• rule, hierarchical, 361–64
• rule, legal, 336, 341, 343–54
• rule, rulership, 116, 471; defined, 134, 335, 338, 406; pure types of rule defined, 341–42
• rule, traditional / patriarchal, 48, 336, 342, 354–74

• satisfaction of wants, 202, 462
• Sax, Emil, 45, 47
• Say, Jean-Baptiste, 463, 475
• Scaff, Lawrence, 5, 10, 28, 29, 483, 498
• Schäffle, Albert Eberhard Friedrich, 91
• Schär, Johann Friedrich, 184
• Schatzberg, Eric, 479
• Schelting, Alexander von, 28, 29, 64
• Schluchter, Wolfgang, 1, 5, 18, 27, 36, 37, 38, 64, 73, 497
• Schmoller, Gustav, 60, 216
• Schönberg, Gustav von, 15, 16, 53, 216
• Schumpeter, Joseph, 17–18
• Schwenkter, Wolfgang, 36
• Secher, H. P., 2
• selection, 119
• Seligman, Edwin R. A., 479
• Shils, Edward, viii, 28, 31, 64
• Sichverhalten, 468, 469
• Siebeck, Paul, 5, 7, 14–21, 39, 54
• Simmel, Georg, 49, 59–60, 77–78, 483
• Sismondi, Simonde de, 198
• Sitte, 464, 477–78
• slaves, 138, 149, 179, 209, 223, 228–29, 232–33, 238, 240–44, 249, 256, 258, 270, 280–82, 332, 336, 340, 356, 359, 361, 364, 393, 399, 400, 435, 451, 452, 453
• Smart, William, 475, 476, 487
• Smith, Adam, Wealth of Nations, 140, 202, 461, 474, 476, 484
• Smith, Vera, 29, 33
• socialism and social reform, distinction between, 198
• social relationship: defined, 103–6; open and closed, 123–26
• sociation, 5, 402
• sociology, 64, 96, 98, 448, 468
• sociology, economic, 63–64, 165
• sociology, German, 59, 91
• sociology, interpretive, viii, 459, 485
• sociology, Weber’s, xi, 5, 12, 22, 38, 41–42, 48, 57–59, 65–66, 68–69, 74–75, 78–79, 449
• Sombart, Werner, 13, 14, 49, 198, 479
• Sozialökonomik, 12
• Spann, Othmar, 94
• Spencer, Herbert, 93, 473
• Stab, administrative staff, 67, 75, 340, 345–48, 356–63, 372, 375, 382, 395, 402, 404–5, 429, 478, 480
• Stammler, Rudolf, 49, 78, 110, 112
• Stand, Stände, 478
• state, 136–38, 158, 277, 284–85, 431
• status, 250
• Stein, Lorenz von, 475
• Stonier, Alfred, 28
• subsistence economy, 462, 466, 474
• Swedberg, Richard, 459, 471
• Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, 498
• sympathy, 465

• Tauschwirtschaft, 466
• taxation, systems of, 323
• tax state, 324
• Technik, 54, 478–79
• technology, 54, 147–48, 160, 193, 199, 207, 211, 214, 217–18, 221, 243, 254, 479, 486
• Timasheff, Nichoas Sergeyevitch, 471
• Tönnies, Ferdinand, 49, 50, 61–62, 78, 112, 482
• trade, 272–75
• translation protocols, 459
• Tribe, Keith, 4, 14, 24, 28, 44, 59, 70, 197, 462, 463, 469, 477, 498
• Tugan-Baranovsky, Mikhail, 230
• Typisch, typical, 153, 213, 479
• typology, 81–82, 97, 261–63, 479

• usage, 464
• utility, utilities, 139, 150, 155, 182, 460, 463, 475, 477

• validity, validation, 109, 113, 289, 335, 342, 374, 468
• valorisation, 229, 232, 236, 326
• value, 463
• Veblen, Thorstein, 479
• Verband, 4, 67, 75, 154, 468, 472, 480–81
• Verein, 133, 480, 481
• Verein für Socialpolitik, 22
• Verfügungsgewalt, 482, 484
• Vergemeinschaftung, 38, 52–53, 120–23, 482–83
• Vergesellschaftung, 38, 52–53, 120–23, 208–9, 402, 482–84
• Verkehrswirtschaft, 8, 466, 484
• Vermögen, 484
• Verstehen, 49, 82–85, 94, 465, 485
• verstehend, 459
• Verteilung, 461
• Vidich, A. J., 31
• Vienna, 7, 12, 23, 39, 44, 74
• violence, 136, 145
• Vorsorge, Versorgung, 468, 484–85

• Wagner, Adolph, 60, 63
• wants, 462
• wealth and income, 175, 177–78, 188–90, 198, 333
• Weber, Adolph, 13
• Weber, Alfred, 48, 196
• Weber, Marianne, vii, 1, 8, 19, 23, 24, 27, 37, 71
• Weber, Max: The Protestant Ethic, 4, 10, 13, 14, 52, 64, 205; Critique of Stammler, 14, 43, 78, 107; “Objectivity” essay, 16, 62, 69, 85; “Politics as a Vocation,” 26; “Essay on Categories,” 38, 42–43, 74, 77; education and early career, 59; “Science as a Vocation,” 66
• Weismann, August Friedrich Leopold, 93
• welfare, 468
• Wieser, Friedrich von, 17–18, 19, 44, 460, 463, 476, 487
• Winckelmann, Johannes, 2, 25, 27, 34–36, 64
• Windelband, Wilhelm, 49
• Wirtschaft, 5, 24, 54, 485
• Wirtschaften, 5, 8, 143, 201, 469, 485
• Wissell, Rudolf, 207
• Wittich, Claus, 2, 3, 7, 28, 36, 112

• Yagi, Kiichiro, 39, 475

• Zweckrational, 487