ABSTRACT
The relationship between Max Weber and the German Historical School has recently been taken up as one of the main themes of studies on Weber. After World War II, Weber’s image was influenced by the insistence on modernizing American social science, and the focus has shifted from history to sociology.1 Along with this shift the significance of the above relationship to the study of Weber generally has decreased. But along with the rise in evolutionary and institutional economics in the United States, and also with the study of Weber’s works (‘Werkgeschichtliche Analyse’), which was initiated by F.H.Tenbruck’s fundamental critique of the composition of Weber’s Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft,2 there has been a renewed interest in the German Historical School and especially Weber’s relationship with that school.3 The appearance of the Max Weber Gesamtausgabe [Complete Works of Max Weber], the publication of an epistolary collection and new materials regarding Verein für Sozialpolitik [German Society of Social Policy] have greatly contributed to this interest in Weber.
