Maximillian Carl Emil Weber was a german political economist and sociologist who was considered one of the founders of the modern study of sociology and public administration along with Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim.He is best known for his thesis of "Protestant Ethic" relating Protestanism and capitalism and for his ideas on bureaucracy.
Weber's early work was related to industrial sociology, but he is most famous for his later work on the sociology religion and sociology of government.
Weber's work on the sociology of religion started with the essay The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism which is his famous work and continued with the analysis of The religion of China:Confucianism and Taoism, The Religion of India: The sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism, and Ancient Judaism.
In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, he tried to prove that ethical and religious ideas were strong influences on the development of capitalism.After defining the spirit of capitalism, Weber argues that there are many reasons to find out its origins in the religious ideas of the Reformation.
Weber proposed a four types of "Ideal Behaviour":zweckrational (goal-oriented), wertrational (value-oriented), affektual (guided by emotion) and traditional (guided by custom or habit).
Weber's other main contribution to economics (as well as to social sciences in general) is his work on methodology: his theories of "Vestehen" (known as understanding or Interpretive Sociology) and of antipositivism(known as humanistic sociology).Furthermore, his work on economic history of Roman agrarian society(his 1891 habilitiation) , the dual roles of idealism and materialism in the history of capitalism in his Economy and Society (1914) and his thoroughly researched General Economic History (1923) were some of his studies on Economics.
Resources:
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9076388/Max-Weber
http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/weber.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_weber
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