The Thorstein Veblen Reader
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In spite of difficulties of sometimes archaic language caused in large part by Veblen's struggles with the terminology of unilinear evolution and of biological determination of social variation that still dominated social thought when he began to write, Veblen's work remains relevant, and not simply for the phrase "conspicuous consumption." His evolutionary approach to the study of economic systems is once again in vogue and his model of recurring conflict between the existing order and new ways can be of great value in understanding the new global economy. CONTENTS: The Barbarian Status of WomenThe Beginning of OwnershipBohm-Bawerk's Definition of Capital and the Source of WagesThe Engineers and The Price SystemThe Higher Learning In America An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of its Perpetuation The Instinct of Workmanship and the Irksomeness of LaborThe Later Marxism The Preconceptions of Economic Science The Theory of Business EnterpriseThe Theory of the Leisure Class The Vested Interests and the Common Man Why is Economics Not an Evolutionary Science