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  • IMPERIAL GERMANY AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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    IMPERIAL GERMANY AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
    THORSTEIN VEBLEN
    Thorsten B. Veblen’s book, Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution, published in the second year of the First World War. Although Imperial Germany was begun before the United States entered World War I, little in the book however relates to that particular conflict. Rather, this is in large part a study of the divergencies in cultural development between the English-spea...

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  • ESSAYS IN OUR CHANGING ORDER
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    ESSAYS IN OUR CHANGING ORDER
    THORSTEIN VEBLEN
    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 interrel...

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  • THE ENGINEERS AND THE PRICE SYSTEM
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    THE ENGINEERS AND THE PRICE SYSTEM
    THORSTEIN VEBLEN
    In his The Engineers and the Price System, originally published in 1921, Veblen observes that World War One demanded industrial innovations, and he was among the first to predict the need for changes in managerial struc-ture. Veblen saw that industrial output was more dependent upon techno-crats managers and capital innova-tors than financiers. In The Engineers and the Price Sy...

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  • THE PLACE OF SCIENCE IN MODERN CIVILIZATION
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    THE PLACE OF SCIENCE IN MODERN CIVILIZATION
    THORSTEIN VEBLEN
    On its original publication in 1919, The Place of Science in Modern Civilization was recognized as a major contribution, and today Veblen continues to command attention and respect. This volume includes some of his most seminal work, essays that have critical, almost devastating implications for capitalist society and mainstream economic theory as well as Marxism and socialism ...

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  • THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS
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    THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS
    THORSTEIN VEBLEN
    In The Theory of the Leisure Class, his first and best-known work, Thorstein Veblen challenges some of society's most cherished standards of behavior and, with devastating wit and satire, exposes the hollowness of many of our canons of taste, education, dress, and culture. Veblen uses the leisure class as his example because it is this class that sets the standards followed by ...

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  • THE INSTINCT OF WORKMANSHIP AND THE STATE OF THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS
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    THE INSTINCT OF WORKMANSHIP AND THE STATE OF THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS
    THORSTEIN VEBLEN
    The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts, originally issued in 1914, is described by Murray Murphey as his "most important work." In this volume that the theoretical foundations are put forth on full display. Veblen's juxtaposition of the instinctive values of community welfare in contrast to the pecuniary values of commercial exchange was the basis of h...

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  • ABSENTEE OWNERSHIP
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    ABSENTEE OWNERSHIP
    THORSTEIN VEBLEN
    Absentee Ownership is an inquiry into the economic situation as it has taken shape in the twentieth century, particularly as exemplified in the case of America. According to Thorstein Veblen, absentee ownership is the main and immediate controlling interest in the life of civilized men. It is the paramount issue between the civilized nations, and guides the conduct of their aff...

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  • THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS
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    THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS
    THORSTEIN VEBLEN
    This scathing critique of America's preoccupation with wealth and status in the Gilded Age continues to resonate more than a century after it was first published   According to economist Thorstein Veblen, the leisure class produces nothing, contributes nothing, and creates nothing, yet exercises a peculiar control over American society. The shallowness of their interests—from f...

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