TheAgrarianSociologyofAncientCivilizatio.epub

This eBook is licensed to Sudarshan Papanna, over2sudarshan@gmail.com on 12/27/2014 Contents: Translator’s introduction – Economic theory and ancient society – The agrarian history of the major centres of ancient civilization – The social causes of the decline of ancient civilization. Includes bibliographies. eISBN: 978-1-78168-241-8 1. Economic history – To 500. 2. Agriculture – History. 3. Social Economic condition. I. Title HC31.W42213 1988 v3.1 This eBook is licensed to Sudarshan Papanna, over2sudarshan@gmail.com on 12/27/2014 factor tended to dominate the economic and intellectual.8 During the next few years this tendency to emphasize political factors grew more pronounced. Weber’s thinking centred on the struggle for power. He made this plain in the inaugural lecture he delivered in 1895 at Freiburg University on assuming the chair of economics: ‘Even behind the processes of economic development we find the struggle for power, and when the nation’s power is at stake this immediately becomes the determining factor in shaping our economic policies. The study of economics is a political study, and it serves in the formation of......