Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe
Max Weber Band III/6: Abriß der universalen Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte. Mit- und Nachschriften 1919-1920 Herausgegeben von Wolfgang Schluchter in Zusammenarbeit mit Joachim Schröder [An Outline of General Social and Economic History. Volume III/6: Outline of Universal Social and Economic History. Lecture Notes and Transcripts 1919-1920.] The major text presented in this volume appeared in English in 1927 as Max Weber’s General Economic History. It is, however, not an original Weber text, but a reconstruction of a lecture delivered during the winter term 1919/20. In this volume of the Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe, the reconstruction is presented in a historical-critical manner and combined with lecture notes by students unpublished till now. (read more...) |
Die Einheit der Gesellschaftswissenschaften (EdG)
Douglass C. North, Barry R. Weingast, John J. Wallis Gewalt und Gesellschaftsordnungen Eine Neudeutung der Staats- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte Übersetzt von Monika Streissler [Violence and Social Orders. A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History] Social orders are differentiated by their ways of dealing with the problem of violence: many states privilege powerful individuals, thus preventing general political and economic development, while some "modern" ones have achieved open access to both politics and the economy, thereby fostering democracy and free markets. (read more...) |
6th, revised edition
Grundgesetz Textausgabe mit sämtlichen Änderungen und weitere Texte zum deutschen und europäischen Verfassungsrecht Herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Horst Dreier und Fabian Wittreck [The German Basic Law (Grundgesetz) Text Edition with Amendments and Further Provisions on German and European Constitutional Law. 6th edition] The German Basic Law (Grundgesetz) has undergone numerous modifications since it was adopted in 1949. This comprehensive edition not only provides the complete and updated text, but also gives annotations for each single amendment as well as older versions which have been replaced or abolished. Apart from the Basic Law, the authors present other fundamental texts of German and European Union constitutional law and make these accessible in a comprehensive index. (read more...) |
Weimar Republic
Hugo Preuß Gesammelte Schriften. Vierter Band: Politik und Verfassung in der Weimarer Republik [Collected Writings. Volume 4: Politics and the Constitution in the Weimar Republic] In this volume, those works by Hugo Preuß which were written between the beginning of the November Revolution in 1918 up to his death in October 1925 are presented along with commentaries. (read more...) |