Álvaro Morcillo Laiz
Biographic Data
| ID | 337301 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Álvaro Morcillo Laiz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Álvaro Morcillo |
| FAMILY NAME | Laiz |
| SIGNATURE | LAIZ Á M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0969-4320 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Three Takes on Mad Hazard
In this contribution I turn Mad Hazard into a source of evidence for two types of experiences familiar to those on the margins of academia. The first type of experience is that those at the top of the academic ladder and their pawns, use peer review not to improve submissions but to fence off rival interpretations of highly valued authors and ideas. The second experience illustrates how academic elites ignore uncomfortable questions about the way…
Social Sciences in the Looking Glass
In recent years, social scientists have turned their critical lens on the historical roots and contours of their disciplines, including their politics and practices, epistemologies and methods, institutionalization and professionalization, national development and colonial expansion, globalization and local contestations, and public presence and role in society. The Social Sciences in the Looking Glass offers current social scientific perspective…
Spaces of Real Possibilities
The Cold War Origins of Global IR. The Rockefeller Foundation and Realist Theory in Latin America
This article questions and partially refutes three arguments about the history of international relations (IR) as a discipline. The first argument has been raised in the literature about global IR, which argues that the discipline mirrors the power gap that characterizes international politics. The second argument is that classical realist IR theory reached the zenith of its influence in the 1950s thanks to the support that Hans J. Morgenthau and…
Science Patronage, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Mexican Social Sciences in the 1940s
If the public universities of Latin America are considered part of the State, then it would seem likely that they share fundamental features with it. This would imply, for example, that during much of the 20th century, universities have been clientelistic, like the State itself. However, this feasible hypothesis has never been examined by the literature on the Mexican social sciences of the 20th century. The same is true of the role played by pat…
Philanthropic Foundations and Transnational Activist Networks
Foundations provide key funds for nongovernmental organizations. We know little about what they do for transnational activism or the mechanisms via which they seek/achieve influence. We carve a middle ground between those who see donors as supporting actors in transnational advocacy networks (TANs) and those who think they distort activism through impersonal market forces. Our negotiation-oriented approach looks at the micro-dynamics of donor–gra…
The Cold War Origins of Global IR. The Rockefeller Foundation and Realism in Latin America
The literature on global international relations (IR) has argued that the discipline develops in the footsteps of world politics, but no sustained attention has been given to more immediate causes such as the funders that pay for IR teaching and scholarship. These donor–recipient relations have only attracted the attention of authors interested in cultural hegemony and those contributing to the recent historiography of IR. Among the latter, some …
Max Weber's Apprenticeship and Journeyman Years
[MWS 21.2 (2021) 213-243] ISSN 1470-8078 doi: 10.15543/maxweberstudies.21.2.213© Max Weber Studies 2021, Global Policy Institute, University House, Coventry University London, 109 Middlesex Street, London E1 7JF. Review Essay Max Weber’s Apprenticeship and Journeyman Years: Letters 1875–94 Álvaro Morcillo Laiz Max Weber, Briefe 1875–1886, edited by Gangolf Hübinger in cooperation with Thomas Gerhards and Uta Hinz (Max Weber Gesamtausgabe II/1; Tü…
La gran dama
If Latin America's public universities are considered part of the state, then it seems plausible to characterise them as similar to the state, i.e. as clientelistic. However, this plausible hypothesis has never been examined by the literature on twentieth-century Mexican social sciences. Just like clientelism, science patrons such as US philanthropic foundations have similarly been neglected. In this article I argue that, as an alternative to wha…
Introduction
Science as a Vocation was one episode within Weber’s broader charm offensive toward German students. Between 1917 and 1919, he tried to entice students into his view of university teaching and into the understanding of the relation between science and action, including political action that was embodied in his own life philosophy. Weber deployed this attempt to seduce students because he considered them to be the future of Germany and also becaus…
W eber, M ax (1864–1920)
The biography of Weber, born into a cosmopolitan family with some deeply religious members, may have inspired his main thesis: that Protestantism influenced the rise of “modern capitalism,” a Western development of worldwide significance. In his attempt to identify the impact of religion on economic life, Weber analyzed the religiously rooted life‐conduct ( Lebensführung ) of socially relevant groups in various civilizations, emphasizing the econ…
The ‘knight of faith’ and some Weberians
Das Max Weber nicht nur ein soziologischer Beckmesser war, sondern ein lebendigerPolitiker, scheint ihm [Albert Salomon] nicht einmal aufgefallen zu seinHeinrich Blucher to Hannah Arendt1For most s
International organizations, their staff and their legitimacy
If the journal was to fulfil its given task, it obviously had to seek capitalism wherever it was available, without any consideration of national boundaries ... This systematic expansion towards the possibly broadest territory granted the Archiv an international character in even a higher degree than other publications within the discipline
Rationality and International Domination
Rationalization, a core concept of Max Weber’s sociology, has so far largely been ignored in International Relations (IR) theory discussions, although his ideas about rationalization open new pathways for theorizing modernity and conflict. We revisit Weber’s concepts of rationalization and domination to show the limits of two key bodies of related knowledge in IR: scholarship on international organizations as bureaucracies and ideas on rationaliz…
Unanimity, Consensus and Peripheral Parties as Determinants of EU Policy Coordination in Federal Member States
Another Weber
While there has arguably been a partial reception of Weber in international relations (IR), we argue here that his ideas have either been misunderstood or neglected. In order to highlight the most valuable Weberian insights, we focus on two topics of crucial importance to IR. First, in our view, Weber's crucial contribution to the study of states is not his alleged emphasis on the monopoly of violence but his concern with the problem of legitimac…
El estilo de Max Weber. Sobre su participación en política y sobre el modo científico de escribir sociología
Las cartas escritas por Max Weber durante los dos últimos años y medio de su vida po-dría servir como base para una sociología de la intelligentsia centroeuropea de entreguerras. Sin embargo, en vez de centrarse en los encuentros de Weber con las figuras de su tiempo, tanto de la literatura —Thomas Mann, Hugo von Hofmannsthal— como de la música —Richard Strauss—, este artículo discute sucesivamente tres temas que relacionamos a menudo con Weber, …
Socialismo democrático
Los detentores del poder político pueden elegir entre la infinidad de posibilidades institucionales que existen entre capitalismo y socialismo. Después de explicar por qué cualquier sistema de producción es mixto, este ensayo explora ambas cuestiones: por qué los mercados frecuentemente se consideran preferibles a otros arreglos y cuáles son los males “simples” asociados a las economías capitalistas de mercado. Entre estos males “simples”, encont…
Sobre el surgimiento de la obra póstuma de Max Weber
Una revista científica, con revisión por pares, que publica investigación empírica y contribuciones teóricas en sociología, antropología, sociodemografía, y disciplinas afines. Nuestra misión es presentar los resultados de la investigación de la más alta calidad, con énfasis en América Latina, pero con proyección y alcance global
Crítica a la interpretación de Max Weber por sus primeros traductores al español
Una revista científica, con revisión por pares, que publica investigación empírica y contribuciones teóricas en sociología, antropología, sociodemografía, y disciplinas afines. Nuestra misión es presentar los resultados de la investigación de la más alta calidad, con énfasis en América Latina, pero con proyección y alcance global
Aviso a los navegantes
Una lectura en profundidad de Economía y sociedad de Max Weber se puede beneficiar sustancialmente de comparar la obra en alemán con su versión en español. Para llevar a cabo esta labor, el artículo examina la apariencia externa de Economía y sociedad en español así como las limitaciones —descuidos, alteraciones en la secuencia, omisiones, y tergiversaciones del sentido de los términos— que caracterizan la misma, para concluir con las traduccione…
La gran dama
If Latin America's public universities are considered part of the state, then it seems plausible to characterise them as similar to the state, i.e. as clientelistic. However, this plausible hypothesis has never been examined by the literature on twentieth-century Mexican social sciences. Just like clientelism, science patrons such as US philanthropic foundations have similarly been neglected. In this article I argue that, as an alternative to wha…
Rationality and International Domination
Rationalization, a core concept of Max Weber’s sociology, has so far largely been ignored in International Relations (IR) theory discussions, although his ideas about rationalization open new pathways for theorizing modernity and conflict. We revisit Weber’s concepts of rationalization and domination to show the limits of two key bodies of related knowledge in IR: scholarship on international organizations as bureaucracies and ideas on rationaliz…
The Cold War Origins of Global IR. The Rockefeller Foundation and Realism in Latin America
The literature on global international relations (IR) has argued that the discipline develops in the footsteps of world politics, but no sustained attention has been given to more immediate causes such as the funders that pay for IR teaching and scholarship. These donor–recipient relations have only attracted the attention of authors interested in cultural hegemony and those contributing to the recent historiography of IR. Among the latter, some …
Philanthropic Foundations and Transnational Activist Networks
Foundations provide key funds for nongovernmental organizations. We know little about what they do for transnational activism or the mechanisms via which they seek/achieve influence. We carve a middle ground between those who see donors as supporting actors in transnational advocacy networks (TANs) and those who think they distort activism through impersonal market forces. Our negotiation-oriented approach looks at the micro-dynamics of donor–gra…
International organizations, their staff and their legitimacy
If the journal was to fulfil its given task, it obviously had to seek capitalism wherever it was available, without any consideration of national boundaries ... This systematic expansion towards the possibly broadest territory granted the Archiv an international character in even a higher degree than other publications within the discipline
Another Weber
While there has arguably been a partial reception of Weber in international relations (IR), we argue here that his ideas have either been misunderstood or neglected. In order to highlight the most valuable Weberian insights, we focus on two topics of crucial importance to IR. First, in our view, Weber's crucial contribution to the study of states is not his alleged emphasis on the monopoly of violence but his concern with the problem of legitimac…
Max Weber's Apprenticeship and Journeyman Years
[MWS 21.2 (2021) 213-243] ISSN 1470-8078 doi: 10.15543/maxweberstudies.21.2.213© Max Weber Studies 2021, Global Policy Institute, University House, Coventry University London, 109 Middlesex Street, London E1 7JF. Review Essay Max Weber’s Apprenticeship and Journeyman Years: Letters 1875–94 Álvaro Morcillo Laiz Max Weber, Briefe 1875–1886, edited by Gangolf Hübinger in cooperation with Thomas Gerhards and Uta Hinz (Max Weber Gesamtausgabe II/1; Tü…
Introduction
Science as a Vocation was one episode within Weber’s broader charm offensive toward German students. Between 1917 and 1919, he tried to entice students into his view of university teaching and into the understanding of the relation between science and action, including political action that was embodied in his own life philosophy. Weber deployed this attempt to seduce students because he considered them to be the future of Germany and also becaus…
Unanimity, Consensus and Peripheral Parties as Determinants of EU Policy Coordination in Federal Member States
Socialismo democrático
Los detentores del poder político pueden elegir entre la infinidad de posibilidades institucionales que existen entre capitalismo y socialismo. Después de explicar por qué cualquier sistema de producción es mixto, este ensayo explora ambas cuestiones: por qué los mercados frecuentemente se consideran preferibles a otros arreglos y cuáles son los males “simples” asociados a las economías capitalistas de mercado. Entre estos males “simples”, encont…
Aviso a los navegantes
Una lectura en profundidad de Economía y sociedad de Max Weber se puede beneficiar sustancialmente de comparar la obra en alemán con su versión en español. Para llevar a cabo esta labor, el artículo examina la apariencia externa de Economía y sociedad en español así como las limitaciones —descuidos, alteraciones en la secuencia, omisiones, y tergiversaciones del sentido de los términos— que caracterizan la misma, para concluir con las traduccione…
Socialismo democrático
Los detentores del poder político pueden elegir entre la infinidad de posibilidades institucionales que existen entre capitalismo y socialismo. Después de explicar por qué cualquier sistema de producción es mixto, este ensayo explora ambas cuestiones: por qué los mercados frecuentemente se consideran preferibles a otros arreglos y cuáles son los males “simples” asociados a las economías capitalistas de mercado. Entre estos males “simples”, encont…
Sobre el surgimiento de la obra póstuma de Max Weber
Una revista científica, con revisión por pares, que publica investigación empírica y contribuciones teóricas en sociología, antropología, sociodemografía, y disciplinas afines. Nuestra misión es presentar los resultados de la investigación de la más alta calidad, con énfasis en América Latina, pero con proyección y alcance global
Crítica a la interpretación de Max Weber por sus primeros traductores al español
Una revista científica, con revisión por pares, que publica investigación empírica y contribuciones teóricas en sociología, antropología, sociodemografía, y disciplinas afines. Nuestra misión es presentar los resultados de la investigación de la más alta calidad, con énfasis en América Latina, pero con proyección y alcance global
Unanimity, Consensus and Peripheral Parties as Determinants of EU Policy Coordination in Federal Member States
Another Weber
While there has arguably been a partial reception of Weber in international relations (IR), we argue here that his ideas have either been misunderstood or neglected. In order to highlight the most valuable Weberian insights, we focus on two topics of crucial importance to IR. First, in our view, Weber's crucial contribution to the study of states is not his alleged emphasis on the monopoly of violence but his concern with the problem of legitimac…
El estilo de Max Weber. Sobre su participación en política y sobre el modo científico de escribir sociología
Las cartas escritas por Max Weber durante los dos últimos años y medio de su vida po-dría servir como base para una sociología de la intelligentsia centroeuropea de entreguerras. Sin embargo, en vez de centrarse en los encuentros de Weber con las figuras de su tiempo, tanto de la literatura —Thomas Mann, Hugo von Hofmannsthal— como de la música —Richard Strauss—, este artículo discute sucesivamente tres temas que relacionamos a menudo con Weber, …
The ‘knight of faith’ and some Weberians
Das Max Weber nicht nur ein soziologischer Beckmesser war, sondern ein lebendigerPolitiker, scheint ihm [Albert Salomon] nicht einmal aufgefallen zu seinHeinrich Blucher to Hannah Arendt1For most s
International organizations, their staff and their legitimacy
If the journal was to fulfil its given task, it obviously had to seek capitalism wherever it was available, without any consideration of national boundaries ... This systematic expansion towards the possibly broadest territory granted the Archiv an international character in even a higher degree than other publications within the discipline
Rationality and International Domination
Rationalization, a core concept of Max Weber’s sociology, has so far largely been ignored in International Relations (IR) theory discussions, although his ideas about rationalization open new pathways for theorizing modernity and conflict. We revisit Weber’s concepts of rationalization and domination to show the limits of two key bodies of related knowledge in IR: scholarship on international organizations as bureaucracies and ideas on rationaliz…
W eber, M ax (1864–1920)
The biography of Weber, born into a cosmopolitan family with some deeply religious members, may have inspired his main thesis: that Protestantism influenced the rise of “modern capitalism,” a Western development of worldwide significance. In his attempt to identify the impact of religion on economic life, Weber analyzed the religiously rooted life‐conduct ( Lebensführung ) of socially relevant groups in various civilizations, emphasizing the econ…
La gran dama
If Latin America's public universities are considered part of the state, then it seems plausible to characterise them as similar to the state, i.e. as clientelistic. However, this plausible hypothesis has never been examined by the literature on twentieth-century Mexican social sciences. Just like clientelism, science patrons such as US philanthropic foundations have similarly been neglected. In this article I argue that, as an alternative to wha…
Introduction
Science as a Vocation was one episode within Weber’s broader charm offensive toward German students. Between 1917 and 1919, he tried to entice students into his view of university teaching and into the understanding of the relation between science and action, including political action that was embodied in his own life philosophy. Weber deployed this attempt to seduce students because he considered them to be the future of Germany and also becaus…
Max Weber's Apprenticeship and Journeyman Years
[MWS 21.2 (2021) 213-243] ISSN 1470-8078 doi: 10.15543/maxweberstudies.21.2.213© Max Weber Studies 2021, Global Policy Institute, University House, Coventry University London, 109 Middlesex Street, London E1 7JF. Review Essay Max Weber’s Apprenticeship and Journeyman Years: Letters 1875–94 Álvaro Morcillo Laiz Max Weber, Briefe 1875–1886, edited by Gangolf Hübinger in cooperation with Thomas Gerhards and Uta Hinz (Max Weber Gesamtausgabe II/1; Tü…
The Cold War Origins of Global IR. The Rockefeller Foundation and Realism in Latin America
The literature on global international relations (IR) has argued that the discipline develops in the footsteps of world politics, but no sustained attention has been given to more immediate causes such as the funders that pay for IR teaching and scholarship. These donor–recipient relations have only attracted the attention of authors interested in cultural hegemony and those contributing to the recent historiography of IR. Among the latter, some …
Social Sciences in the Looking Glass
In recent years, social scientists have turned their critical lens on the historical roots and contours of their disciplines, including their politics and practices, epistemologies and methods, institutionalization and professionalization, national development and colonial expansion, globalization and local contestations, and public presence and role in society. The Social Sciences in the Looking Glass offers current social scientific perspective…
Spaces of Real Possibilities
The Cold War Origins of Global IR. The Rockefeller Foundation and Realist Theory in Latin America
This article questions and partially refutes three arguments about the history of international relations (IR) as a discipline. The first argument has been raised in the literature about global IR, which argues that the discipline mirrors the power gap that characterizes international politics. The second argument is that classical realist IR theory reached the zenith of its influence in the 1950s thanks to the support that Hans J. Morgenthau and…
Science Patronage, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Mexican Social Sciences in the 1940s
If the public universities of Latin America are considered part of the State, then it would seem likely that they share fundamental features with it. This would imply, for example, that during much of the 20th century, universities have been clientelistic, like the State itself. However, this feasible hypothesis has never been examined by the literature on the Mexican social sciences of the 20th century. The same is true of the role played by pat…
Philanthropic Foundations and Transnational Activist Networks
Foundations provide key funds for nongovernmental organizations. We know little about what they do for transnational activism or the mechanisms via which they seek/achieve influence. We carve a middle ground between those who see donors as supporting actors in transnational advocacy networks (TANs) and those who think they distort activism through impersonal market forces. Our negotiation-oriented approach looks at the micro-dynamics of donor–gra…
Three Takes on Mad Hazard
In this contribution I turn Mad Hazard into a source of evidence for two types of experiences familiar to those on the margins of academia. The first type of experience is that those at the top of the academic ladder and their pawns, use peer review not to improve submissions but to fence off rival interpretations of highly valued authors and ideas. The second experience illustrates how academic elites ignore uncomfortable questions about the way…
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