Thorstein Veblen: Victoria Firebrand

ISBN-13: 9780765602589 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 304 str.

Elizabeth Jorgensen; Henry Jorgensen

Opis

This biography of early 20th-century economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen. It examines his unrelenting criticism of the conspicuous consumption and waste of American business culture and his reputation as an eccentric and womanizer.

Spis treści

In this text, the author develops the general thesis that as most of the old Second (Communist) World has disappeared, what is left is a world composed of two different kinds of states or "tiers": the First Tier, the development market democracies; and the Second Tier, the old Third World. A major question facing the international order is whether the former Communist states will end up in the First or Second Tier. The text also discusses the collapse of the Soviet Union and the tragedies in Africa and the former Yugoslavia.

O autorze

Henry Jorgensen