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The English translation of only the first part of Über den Standort der Industrien helped to shape a neoclassical image of Alfred Weber. D. Gregory has attempted to take into account the whole of the author's work concerning localization, in order to denounce an “interpretative violence”, but has made a far too simplistic interpretation in terms of an epistemological break. The project of Weber was sociological in nature from the beginning and was a continuation of the attempts of his brother Max and of his friend Sombart to link the abstract approach of the classical English economists to the more inductive approach of the German Historical School and also articulate economic and sociocultural dimensions. The questions that are now posed by economic geography surrounding the embeddedness of the economy within social realities confer new interest on this approach.