Publisher's Synopsis
This work has been proclaimed as the most important of the twentieth century within social sciences. Along his work, Max Weber develops the fundamental concepts of sociology and economics, as well as various types of domination analyzed against the backdrop of world history. This new edition prepared by Francisco Gil Villegas presents the corrected translation, revised and enriched with reviews and information notes, and includes a broad and intellectual introduction. It is also complemented with new appendices added in the German critical edition and the translation of the same author, absent in previous editions, for the oldest and fullest part of the work.