Review of: "Werner Sombart’s Longue Durée"

Tomás Gutiérrez-Barbarrusa¹

1 Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Potential competing interests: No potential competing interests to declare.

I think it's really interesting that someone writes an article about a relatively unknown author as Werner Sombart and his
contribution to the social sciences. As the author of the manuscript argues, it was Parsons who, in 1937, sentenced him to
oblivion, while given Weber a favourable position on key topics in Sociology such as, among others, the spirit of
capitalism. This has meant that interpretations of them are somewhat biased.

It is an original work, well written, is drawed with a logical and coherent argumentation, as it is well-referenced to support
its points, it is based on extensive and relevant sources and it is technically sound. Then, I don't have much to contribute,
if anything, as a constructive suggestion to improve the paper, I would like to point out that, among the references to
Keynes that the author makes throughout the text, he could also consider the posibility to include the metaphor of the
fable of bees of which Keynes speaks at the end of his General Theory (6th book) to referring to underconsumption. This
issue would be linked to effective demand, the conspicuous consumption and, ultimately, the spirit of luxury.