Essays in Our Changing Order

ISBN-13: 9781560009641 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 536 str.

Thorstein Veblen; Scott Bowman

Opis

Essays in Our Changing Order is the ninth volume in the collected works of America's pre-eminent social scientist. Each volume has a new opening essay, in this case, a comprehensive review of Veblen's works by Scott Bowman that stands by itself as a premier statement. Using an innovative framework, Bowman sees Veblen as concerned with three unifying themes: the dynamic interrelationships between instinct, habits of thought, environment, and social change in human evolution; the essential contradiction between business and industry sustained by the instinctual dominance of pecuniary exploit over workmanlike efficiency; and the role of ideological and animistic thinking in human affairs.This volume of Veblen's most important studies, published posthumously in 1936, illustrates and embellishes the themes Bowman outlines in a variety of ways, and is remarkable for its contemporanity and literary freshness. Veblen's editor, Leon Ardzrooni, divides the work into three major segments: essays on economics, including the history of the field; miscellaneous papers, which nearly all come to rest on matters of religion and philosophy; and what Ardzrooni calls war essays, which again reveal a very worldly and wise observer of current events and critic of national policies. What is so astonishing is the timeliness of these seemingly time bound concerns: whether dealing with the condition of women, the intellectual contributions of Jews, farm labor and unions, or the meaning of the Bolshevik Revolution, Veblen confronts us with insights into still-unfinished business.

Spis treści

Introduction, Essays in Economics, Economic Theory in the Calculable Future, Mr. Cummings’s Strictures on “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, The Beginnings of Ownership, The Barbarian Status of Women, The Economic Theory of Woman’s Dress, The Instinct of Workmanship and the Irksomeness of Labor, The Army of the Commonweal, “The Overproduction Fallacy”, Credit and Prices, Bohm-Bawerk’s Definition of Capital, and the Source of Wages, Fisher’s Rate of Interest, Fisher’s Capital and Income, II. Miscellaneous Papers, Kant’s Critique of Judgment, Arts and Crafts, Christian Morals and the Competitive System, The Intellectual Pre-eminence of Jews in Modern Europe, An Experiment in Eugenics, III. War Essays, Japanese Lose Hope for Germany, The Opportunity of Japan, Menial Servants during the Period of the War, Farm Labor for the Period of the War, Farm Labor and the I.W.W, The War and Higher Learning, A Memorandum on a Schedule of Prices for the Staple Foodstuffs, Suggestions Touching the Working Program of an Inquiry into the Prospective, Terms of Peace, Outline of a Policy for the Control of the “Economic Penetration” of Backwar Countries and of Foreign Investments, The Passing of National Frontiers, A Policy of Reconstruction, Bolshevism Is a Menace—to Whom? Peace, Dementia Prucox, Between Bolshevism and War, Editorials from ‘The Dial” The Economic Consequences of the Peace

O autorze

Veblen, Thorstein