Adam Smith and modern sociology : a study in the methodology of the social sciences

If one were to come upon The Wealth of Nations for the first time, with a knowledge of the general sociological way of looking at society, but with no knowledge of economic literature, there would be not the slightest difficulty nor hesitation about classifying the book as an inquiry in a special field of sociology. 1907. Contents: The Sources; The Economics and Sociology of Labor; The Economics and Sociology of Capital; Economic vs. Sociological Interpretation of History; The Problems of Economic and of Sociological Science; and The Relation of Economic Technology to Other Social Technologies, and to Sociology.