The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Norton Critical Editions)
Max Weber was born in Erfurt, Germany in 1864 and died in Munich in 1920. His works are legion, but amongst the better known which translated into English, are Economy and Society, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, The City, and The Sociology of Religion.Richard Swedberg is Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. He is the author of Max Weber and the Idea of Economic  Sociology and A Max Weber  Dictionary. He is coeditor (with Neil  Smelser) of The Handbook of Economic  Sociology and (with Mark Granovetter) of  The Sociology of Economic Life.