Veblens America

Author : Sidney Plotkin
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783088745
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Veblens America written by Sidney Plotkin and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2018-12-28 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Trump’s astonishing rise to the US presidency challenges conventional understandings of American politics, yet he is distinctively American. His biography and family lineage reflect American traditions such as real estate hucksterism and buccaneering salesmanship. But Trump’s pugnacity also reflects the shadow of other darker American traditions of misogyny, racism and xenophobia, patterns that formed what Thorstein Veblen called a “sclerosis of the American soul.” Using Veblen’s theory of American development to explore the nation’s curious fusion of barbarism and liberal democracy, Veblen’s America taps the rich vein of the sociologist’s early twentieth-century insights to shed light on the Trump phenomenon that has overwhelmed and threatened early twenty-first-century American democracy.

Author : Sidney Plotkin
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783088737
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Veblens America written by Sidney Plotkin and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2018-12-28 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Trump’s astonishing rise to the US presidency challenges conventional understandings of American politics, yet he is distinctively American. His biography and family lineage reflect American traditions such as real estate hucksterism and buccaneering salesmanship. But Trump’s pugnacity also reflects the shadow of other darker American traditions of misogyny, racism and xenophobia, patterns that formed what Thorstein Veblen called a “sclerosis of the American soul.” Using Veblen’s theory of American development to explore the nation’s curious fusion of barbarism and liberal democracy, Veblen’s America taps the rich vein of the sociologist’s early twentieth-century insights to shed light on the Trump phenomenon that has overwhelmed and threatened early twenty-first-century American democracy.

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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Thorstein Veblen and His America written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Spindler
Publisher : Pluto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780745309590
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Veblen And Modern America written by Michael Spindler and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2002-05-20 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EvaluatesVeblen not just as an economist or a sociologist but as a seminal critic of modern American culture.

Author : Joseph Dorfman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thorstein Veblen and His America written by Joseph Dorfman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1961 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Irving Horowitz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351325140
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Veblen's Century written by Irving Horowitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thorstein Veblen has a place of honor reserved for truly important figures. Economist, iconoclast, social critic, and moral judge of the American way of life, he has continued to attract the attention of students and scholars alike. People from every spectrum of political thought and every branch of the social sciences have been drawn to his work-sometimes in praise, other times in criticism, but always with a sense of measuring what Veblen said and often how he said it.Veblen was, in the final analysis, an anthropologist of America as an advanced culture, as much a figure of the young twentieth century of America triumphant, as Tocqueville was a figure of the young nineteenth century of America ascending. We share with Veblen a sense of the observer peering at the complex foundation of behavior, whether such behavior is defined in terms of attitudes toward work and leisure, wealth and poverty, and finally, global war and peace.An examination of the contributors to the Veblen literature in this masterful volume serves to make clear just how vital Veblen was and remains to our cultural landscape. Whether the reader selects from or reads all of the statements by David Riesman, Douglas Dowd, Max Lerner, E. Digby Baltzell, Wesley Clair Mitchell, C. Wright Mills, Daniel Bell, and the other outstanding participants in Veblen's Century, the pulsating vitality of Veblen himself is well captured. Indeed, a little bit of Veblen is encapsulated in and by his commentators.Veblen's Century originated as a project initiated in 1974 by Professor Horowitz to reissue the entire corpus of Veblen's writings in new editions with introductions written expressly with this larger purpose of bringing the master of economic theory to the attention of a new generation. That the project took more than a quarter century to complete is indicative of the care with which each new essay is crafted. In addition, with Transaction being identified as the home of Veblen, books on him were offered to

Author : John Patrick Diggins
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691223319
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thorstein Veblen written by John Patrick Diggins and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fired by Stanford and the University of Chicago but recommended by his peers to the presidency of the American Economic Association, Thorstein Veblen remains a baffling figure in American intellectual history. In part because he was an eccentric who shunned publicity, he has also been one of our most neglected. Veblen is known to the general public only as coiner of the term "conspicuous consumption," and to scholars primarily as one of many social critics of the reform-minded Progressive Era. This important critical biography--originally published as The Bard of Savagery and now appearing in paperback for the first time--attempts both to unravel the riddles that surround his reputation and to assess his varied and important contributions to modern social theory.

Author : John Cunningham Wood
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415074872
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thorstein Veblen written by John Cunningham Wood and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 138 articles are arranged thematically to give easy access to the intellectual processes of this influencial economist. Volume 1 deals with his life and perspectives, volume 2 with "political economy" and volume 3 on "Specialized topics

Author : Joseph Dorfman
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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Thorstein Veblen and His America written by Joseph Dorfman and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Douglas F. Dowd
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412839969
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thorstein Veblen written by Douglas F. Dowd and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thorstein Veblen shook the complacency of America in the early twentieth century with his incisive criticisms of our social and economic systems. Discarding the classical view of "eternal" economic laws that conveniently justified the nineteenth-century predatory practices of "big business" in terms of rational self-interest, Veblen cast a fresh, merciless eye on America's money-making passion. In glittering prose, Veblen exposed our social system as one designed to block man's natural "instinct of workmanship." He demonstrated that our leisure-class culture fostered the myth that work was inherently irksome to man. Veblen was also fascinated by the machine and the new science of technology. He saw businessmen basically at war with engineers and scientists because making exorbitant profits did not necessarily jibe with making better goods. In his study of this intriguing personality, Thorstein Veblen, Douglas Dowd reveals that Veblen was unsuccessful in his university career and his two marriages, and in his private life was strange, bitter, and detached. But in his books, Veblen shone as one of America's most penetrating thinkers whose theories proved a potent force in the moderniation of economics as a science. Dowd's sympathetic approach to Veblen's nature and problems places this giant in the field against a contemporary background in powerful and lively fashion. In his new introduction, Michael Keaney breathes new life into this unjustly neglected primer on Veblen. A new generation of students will undoubtedly benefit from this comprehensive guide to the thought of someone whose intellectual endeavor was non-doctrinaire and constantly -changing. Douglas Dowd was professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University. He was Guggenheim Fellow. His writings include, Modern Economic Problems in Historical Perspective, America's Role in the World Economy, Step by Step, Thorstein Veblen: A Critical Reappraisal, and numerous articles for scholarly journals and encyclopedias. Michael Keaney is a lecturer in economics at Glasgow Caledonian -University.