Veblen In Perspective

Author : Stephen Edgell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317453646
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Veblen in Perspective written by Stephen Edgell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work discusses the impact and contemporary relevance of the work of Thorstein Veblen, as well as the source of his ideas. It suggests that he was one of the first modern sociologists of consumption whose analysis of contemporary display and fashion anticipated later theories and research.

Author : Charles Camic
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674659724
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Veblen written by Charles Camic and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold new biography of the thinker who demolished accepted economic theories in order to expose how people of economic and social privilege plunder their wealth from society’s productive men and women. Thorstein Veblen was one of America’s most penetrating analysts of modern capitalist society. But he was not, as is widely assumed, an outsider to the social world he acidly described. Veblen overturns the long-accepted view that Veblen’s ideas, including his insights about conspicuous consumption and the leisure class, derived from his position as a social outsider. In the hinterlands of America’s Midwest, Veblen’s schooling coincided with the late nineteenth-century revolution in higher education that occurred under the patronage of the titans of the new industrial age. The resulting educational opportunities carried Veblen from local Carleton College to centers of scholarship at Johns Hopkins, Yale, Cornell, and the University of Chicago, where he studied with leading philosophers, historians, and economists. Afterward, he joined the nation’s academic elite as a professional economist, producing his seminal books The Theory of the Leisure Class and The Theory of Business Enterprise. Until late in his career, Veblen was, Charles Camic argues, the consummate academic insider, engaged in debates about wealth distribution raging in the field of economics. Veblen demonstrates how Veblen’s education and subsequent involvement in those debates gave rise to his original ideas about the social institutions that enable wealthy Americans—a swarm of economically unproductive “parasites”—to amass vast fortunes on the backs of productive men and women. Today, when great wealth inequalities again command national attention, Camic helps us understand the historical roots and continuing reach of Veblen’s searing analysis of this “sclerosis of the American soul.”

Author : THORSTEIN. VEBLEN
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033057698
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS written by THORSTEIN. VEBLEN and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Edgell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317453654
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Veblen in Perspective written by Stephen Edgell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work discusses the impact and contemporary relevance of the work of Thorstein Veblen, as well as the source of his ideas. It suggests that he was one of the first modern sociologists of consumption whose analysis of contemporary display and fashion anticipated later theories and research.

Author : David A. Reisman
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857932195
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Economics of Thorstein Veblen written by David A. Reisman and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Fascination with the economics of Thorstein Veblen is today no less than it was fifty years ago. Many books have been written about his life and ideas. But David Reisman breaks new ground by providing one of the best and most comprehensive explainations of Veblen's thought. Written in a strikingly fresh and lucid style, this work is one of the landmarks of the literature on this great and enduringly relevant economist.' Geoffrey M. Hodgson, University of Hertfordshire, UK 'Considering the inability of conventional economics to comprehend the socio-economic convulsions over the past few years in so many countries, it is surely time to try something else. David Reisman's The Social Economics of Thorstein Veblen thus appears at a most opportune moment. This original analytical study is the best introduction into Veblen's work that I know of, and will, I trust, encourage a renewal of interest in possibly the most unjustly neglected of economists. Reisman's primary contention that there is despite obstacles to comprehension created by Veblen's personal idiosyncrasies and unconventional literary style a Veblen structure of thought, or general system, is fully confirmed by the evidence presented in his book. In this demonstration lies its great merit.' Samuel Hollander, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 'Veblen is a notoriously difficult economist to read and understand. He was, however, unequivocal in his scorn for neoclassical economics, whose demise he took pleasure in predicting. In light of the limp excuses offered by the economics profession for its failure to anticipate the current global financial crisis, Reisman's incisive analysis of Veblen's writings suggests that were Veblen alive today, he would be revelling in schadenfreude. This timely book will make uncomfortable reading for neoclassical economists.' Douglas Mair, Heriot-Watt University, UK 'Reisman offers a brilliant distillation of Veblen's jaundiced purview of the social, psychological and pecuniary motivations that have driven man the social animal in his economic life down the ages, from noble savage to predatory barbarian in his ancient, modern, and potential guises. Avoiding hagiography, this book exposes Veblen's exaggerations as well as his compelling institutional insights into the evolution of capitalism and socialism. Reisman's own intellectual sweep in explaining and criticising Veblen demonstrate political economy at its best.' Roger Sandilands, University of Strathclyde, UK Thorstein Veblen was a multidisciplinary social scientist whose original insights continue to inspire debate. Rather than focusing on allocation, markets and scarcity, his perspective on economics was rather one of Darwinian evolution and perpetual development, unfolding conventions and interpersonal constraints. This interdisciplinary and comprehensive book determines that Veblen's disparate theories of conspicuous consumption, imperial Germany, the giant corporation and the speculation-led cycle all add up to a consistent and coherent world-view. Veblen was a fascinating author who deserves to be read for himself. This penetrating new interpretation demonstrates that he also identified a serious threat to property and peace in the form of irresponsible finance and frustrated workmanship. He believed corporate capitalism was at risk from its internal contradictions. This lucid book assesses the logic behind Veblen's stark and apocalyptic vision. The Social Economics of Thorstein Veblen examines all of Veblen's books and articles, revealing that they are closely integrated to form an organic whole. It will prove valuable for scholars and students interested in sociological theory, politics and political economy, history and institutional economics.

Author : Rick Tilman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691604602
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thorstein Veblen and His Critics, 1891-1963 written by Rick Tilman and published by . This book was released on 2014-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influential economist and philosopher Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was one of the most original and penetrating critics of American culture and institutions, and his work attracted and still attracts the attention of scholars from a wide range of political viewpoints and scholarly disciplines. Focusing on the doctrinal and theoretical facets of Veblen's political economy, this book offers a study not only of his ideas but also of the way his critics have responded to them. Rick Tilman assesses the weight of the critics' reactions, both positive and negative, as well as exposing their sometimes mistaken interpretations of Veblen's work. As he scrutinizes the ideologies of the conservatives, liberals, and radicals who commented on Veblen, he portrays the diversity of social theory in the first half of the twentieth century. Beginning with the first criticism of Veblen's work during the presidency of Benjamin Harrison and concluding with Daniel Bell's attack on him during the Kennedy administration, the book emphasizes those critics who systematically confronted the doctrinal structure of Veblen's thought and believed that they perceived in it fundamental weaknesses. But even the most negatively inclined--such as Paul Baran, Irving Fisher, and Talcott Parsons--admitted some of Veblen's strengths. Ironically, his supporters at times stripped his work of much of its potential for political and moral enlightenment without intending to do so. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Thorstein Veblen
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theory of the Leisure Class written by Thorstein Veblen and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Theory of the Leisure Class is criticism of capitalism. Conspicuous consumption, along with "conspicuous leisure," is performed to demonstrate wealth or mark social status. The book is a treatise on economics and a detailed, social critique of conspicuous consumption, as a function of social class and of consumerism, derived from the social stratification of people and the division of labour, which are the social institutions of the feudal period (9th - 15th centuries) that have continued to the modern era. The book presents the evolutionary development of human institutions (social and economic) that shape society, such as how the citizens earn their livelihoods, wherein technology and the industrial arts are the creative forces of economic production. The sociology and economics applied by Veblen show the dynamic, intellectual influences of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Adam Smith, and Herbert Spencer; thus, his theories of socio-economics emphasize evolution and development as characteristics of human institutions. Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was an American economist and sociologist. He is well known as a witty critic of capitalism. Within the history of economic thought, Veblen is considered the leader of the institutional economics movement. Veblen's distinction between "institutions" and "technology" is still called the Veblenian dichotomy by contemporary economists.

Author : Stjepan Mestrovic
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412932998
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thorstein Veblen on Culture and Society written by Stjepan Mestrovic and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2003-03-19 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known as the author of the acclaimed book, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), Thorstein Veblen was much more than a one-book wonder. He is in fact a seminal classical sociologist who made many original contributions to the study of culture and society. This inspired selection conveys the full zest and penetrating insights of Veblen′s writings.The collection comes with a full-length essay which demonstrates the continuing relevance of Veblen′s sociology.

Author : Thorstein Veblen
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2000 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Business & Economics - Premium Collection written by Thorstein Veblen and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 2000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and meticulously edited collection of Thorstein Veblen's greatest works includes: The Theory of the Leisure Class_x000D_ The Theory of Business Enterprise_x000D_ The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts_x000D_ The Higher Learning in America _x000D_ Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution_x000D_ The Vested Interests and the Common Man_x000D_ The Engineers and the Price System_x000D_ The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation_x000D_ The Evolution of the Scientific Point of View_x000D_ Why Is Economics Not an Evolutionary Science?_x000D_ The Preconceptions of Economic Science_x000D_ Professor Clark's Economics_x000D_ The Limitations of Marginal Utility_x000D_ Gustav Schmoller's Economics_x000D_ Industrial and Pecuniary Employments_x000D_ On the Nature of Capital_x000D_ Some Neglected Points in the Theory of Socialism_x000D_ The Socialist Economics of Karl Marx_x000D_ Böhm-Bawerk's Definition of Capital and the Source of Wages_x000D_ The Overproduction Fallacy_x000D_ The Price of Wheat since 1867_x000D_ Adolph Wagner's New Treatise_x000D_ The Food Supply and the Price of Wheat_x000D_ The Army of the Commonweal_x000D_ The Economic Theory of Women's Dress_x000D_ The Instinct of Workmanship and the Irksomeness of Labor_x000D_ The Beginning of Ownership_x000D_ The Barbarian Status of Women_x000D_ Mr. Cummings's Strictures on "The Theory of the Leisure Class"_x000D_ The Later Railway Combinations_x000D_ Levasseur on Hand and Machine Labor..._x000D_ The Use of Loan Credit in Modern Business_x000D_ Credit and Prices_x000D_ Fisher's Capital and Income_x000D_ Fisher's Rate of Interest_x000D_ The Industrial System and the Captains of Industry_x000D_ ...

Author : Tae-Hee Jo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317631447
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marx, Veblen, and the Foundations of Heterodox Economics written by Tae-Hee Jo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John F. Henry is an eminent economist who has made important contributions to heterodox economics drawing on Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, and John Maynard Keynes. His historical approach offers radical insights into the evolution of ideas (ideologies and theories) giving rise to and/or induced by the changes in capitalist society. Essays collected in this festschrift not only evaluate John Henry’s contributions in connection to Marx’s and Veblen’s theories, but also apply them to the socio-economic issues in the 21st century. In Part I leading heterodox economists in the traditions of Marxism, Post Keynesianism, and Institutionalism critically examine Marx’s and Veblen’s theoretical frameworks (and their connections to each other) that have become the foundations of heterodox economics. Chapters in Part II showcase alternative theoretical explanations inspired by Marx, Veblen, and Henry. Topics in this Part include financial crisis, financialization, capital accumulation, economics teaching, and the historical relationship between money and class society. Part III is devoted to John Henry’s heterodox economics encapsulated in his "farewell" lecture, interview, and bibliography. Essays in this book, individually and collectively, make an important point that the history of economic thought (or historical analysis of economic theory and policy) is an integral part of developing heterodox economics as an alternative theoretical framework. Anyone who is troubled by the recurring failure of capitalism as well as mainstream economics will find this book well worth reading.