Alfred Weber, 1868-1958.
German Historicist economist and sociologist.
Younger brother of the better-known sociologist Max Weber
(although at the time, Alfred was probably better known than Max).
Alfred Weber was one of the first economists
to work on industrial location theory (e.g. 1909).
Alfred Weber studied at Bonn, Tübingen and eventually Berlin,
completing his thesis under Gustav von Schmoller.
After submitting his habilitation thesis in 1900, stayed on at Berlin
until 1904, when he moved to the German-speaking University of Prague.
In 1907, Weber became professor at the University of Heidelberg, where
he remained until 1933, when he was dismissed by the Nazis. He was reinstated
at Heidelberg after the war, in 1945.
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Major Works of Alfred Weber
- Ueber den Standort der Industrien, 1909 [1922 ed., v.1 -
Reine Theorie der Standorts,
av]
[English 1929 translation, Theory of Location of Industries,
av]
- Religion und Kultur, 1912
- "Vortrag: Der soziologische Kulturbegriff", 1913, Verhandlungen
des Zweiten Deutschen Soziologentages, p.1 [av]
- "Industrielle Standortslehre (Allgemeine und kapitalistische Theorie
des Standortes", 1914, Grundriss der Sozialökonomik, Abt. 6, ,
p.54-82
- Die Krise Des Modernen Staatsgedankens in Europa, 1925
- Kulturgeschichte als Kultursoziologie, 1935
- Das Tragische und die Geschichte, 1943
- Abschied von der bisherigen Geschichte. Ueberwindung des
Nihilismus?, 1946
- Der dritte oder vierte Mensch. Vom Sinn des geschichtlichen
Daseins, 1953
- Einführung in die Soziologie, 1955
- Schriften und Aufsätze 1897–1955, 1956
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Resources on Alfred Weber
- Alfred Weber's Theory of the Location of Industries by Carl Joachim
Friedrich, 1929 [av]
- "Max und Alfred Weber - zwei ungleiche Brüder" by Wolfgang Sluchter,
1994, Heidelberg [online]
- "The Theory of Industrial Location: Alfred Weber's Contribution
Reappraised" by David James Reid, M.A. Thesis, 1966 [pdf]
- Weber's location triangle at Hofstra [online]
- "Alfred Weber" page
- A Weber exercise [pdf]
- Alfred-Weber-Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften
center at Univ. Heidelberg
- Wikipedia
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