ABSTRACT
Max Weber affirms that, in the modern situation of society, problems typically acquire a political-social character, in the sense that solutions are neither traditionally nor technically given. Observing the massive state intervention in the war economy, and writing in the year of the Russian Revolution, Weber says that it is possible to maintain that the state power should be increased as a technical means to realize different kinds of values. The analysis of capitalism as a historically instituted system, are the basis on which Weber builds his critique, not only of utilitarianism but also of neoclassical economic ideologies. The final effect of a lack of knowledge is always to limit freedom of choice and the debate on values. Weber's epoch is that of the crisis of liberal capitalism, in connection to which economic thought was obliged to question its own concepts and methods. Beyond the economic valuation, there are value judgments, on whose ground it could be limited or rejected.
