Abstract
Max Weber’s inaugural address in Freiburg, ‘The Nation State and Economic Policy’, is as important as it is contested. It has been used as a key to an understanding of both Weber's political and methodological thought. The minutiae of the empirical part of the lecture, however, has received less attention. This article provides a detailed reconstruction of the largely implicit explanatory scheme in the inaugural address. It sets out to show how Weber's analysis of a social transformation in rural West Prussia—from a patriarchal to a capitalist employment regime—relates to the specific explanandum of the study. The reconstructed explanatory scheme is then used to interpret Weber’s views of the relations between science, values and politics.
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