Veblen's Century: A Collective Portrait

ISBN-13: 9780765808820 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 338 str.

Irving Louis Horowitz

Opis

Thorstein Veblen has a place of honor reserved for truly important fi gures. 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.

Spis treści

I; 1: Veblen in the Context of American Culture; 2: The Strengths and Weaknesses of Veblen; 3: The Place of Veblen in the History of Ideas; 4: Thorstein Veblen: Recipe for an American Genius 1; 5: Thorstein Veblen: Scientism and the Modern Mood; II; 6: Essays in Our Changing Order; 7: The Theory of the Leisure Class; 8: The Engineers and the Price System; 9: The Higher Learning in America; 10: The Theory of Business Enterprise; 11: Absentee Ownership; 12: Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution; 13: The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts; 14: The Nature of Peace; 15: The Place of Science in Modern Civilization; 16: Thorstein Veblen’s Last Hurrah: Kept Classes, Vested Interests, and the Common Man

O autorze

Irving Horowitz