From Mill to Weber
The Meaning of the Concept of Economic Rationality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7095847 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michel S Zouboulakis (0000-0003-1788-7296, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 30-41 |
| Publication date | 2001-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of the History of Economic Thought (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0967-2567 • E-ISSN: 1469-5936 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09672560010015431 |
| OpenAlex | W2140616646 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 22 |
Weber recognized explicitly that his concept of ideal-type is directly borrowed from economic theory and as it is commonly admitted from the German-speaking 'marginalist school'. Nevertheless, the construction of ideal-types reminds greatly the definition of economic rationality made by John Stuart Mill, who also built up a concept to explain, in individualistic terms, the real world in a given historical and geographical context. The position defended here is that Weber generalizes Mill's methodological proposition of concept formation regarding economic rationality to accomplish his much larger project of determining the social factors responsible for the rationalization of the Western civilization
Civilization · Context (archaeology · Economics · Epistemology · German · Ideal (ethics · Ideal type · Individualism · Market economy · Meaning (existential · Methodological individualism · Mill · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Positive economics · Proposition · Rationality · Rationalization (economics · Social science · Sociology · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Political Theory and Influence · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
A history of economic ideas
The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics
History of Economic Analysis
The Philosophy of Social Science
The handbook of economic sociology
The Scope and Method of Political Economy
Mill's Unrevised Philosophy of Economics
William Whewell and John Stuart Mill on the methodology of political economy
John Stuart Mill's Philosophy of Economics
John Stuart Mill's Methodology
The Historical vs. the Deductive Method in Political Economy
John Stuart Mill and the Working-Out of Empiricism
Retrospectives
The History and Philosophy of Social Science
Rickert's Value Theory and the Foundations of Weber's Methodology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2024 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |