Thorstein Veblen
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This unique edition of «THE COMPLETE WORKS OF THORSTEIN VEBLEN» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was an American economist and sociologist. He is well known as a witty critic of capitalism. Contents: The Theory of the Leisure Class The Theory of Business Enterprise The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution An Inquiry into the...
| Автор | Thorstein Veblen |
This eBook edition of «THE INSTINCT OF WORKMANSHIP & THE STATE OF THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "The following work attempts an analysis of such correlation as is visible between industrial use and wont and those other institutional facts that go to make up any given phase of civilisation. It is assumed that in the growth of culture, as in its current maintenance, the facts of technological use and...
| Автор | Thorstein Veblen |
First published in 1899 by American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen, “The Theory of the Leisure Class” is a classic and important examination of the economics of the upper classes and the impact that their habits have upon society at the end of the 19th century. In this work, Veblen, influenced by the work of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, and Adam Smith, contends that the evolutionary development of human society is the basis for our modern economic institutions, such as the divisions...
| Автор | Thorstein Veblen |
This eBook edition of «The Theory of the Leisure Class» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Theory of the Leisure Class is criticism of capitalism. Conspicuous consumption, along with «conspicuous leisure,» is performed to demonstrate wealth or mark social status. The book is a treatise on economics and a detailed, social critique of conspicuous consumption, as a function of social class and of consumerism, derived from the social...
| Автор | Thorstein Veblen |
"The Theory of the Leisure Class" is a classic examination of the economics of the upper classes and the impact that their habits have upon society. In this work Thorstein Veblen coins the phrase «conspicuous consumption» to describe the often wasteful and unnecessary use of resources that is typical of the wealthiest members of a society. Veblen argues that the social values of the rich have greatly contributed to a lack of substantive culture and proper use of wealth in our society. «The...
| Автор | Thorstein Veblen |
"The most impressive satirist of his day." — Time MagazineWith devastating satiric wit, this book examines the hollowness and falsity suggested by the term «conspicuous consumption» (coined by Veblen) and exposes the emptiness of many cherished standards of taste, education, dress, and culture. Since its original publication in 1899, the work has become a classic of social and economic thought and policy and exerted an influence widely felt beyond the sphere of economics.For...
| Автор | Thorstein Veblen |
This eBook edition of «The Higher Learning in America» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was an American economist and sociologist. He is well known as a witty critic of capitalism. Veblen is famous for the idea of «conspicuous consumption.» Conspicuous consumption, along with «conspicuous leisure,» is performed to demonstrate wealth or mark social status. Veblen explains the concept in his best-known...
| Автор | Thorstein Veblen |
This eBook edition of «THE VESTED INTERESTS & THE NATURE OF PEACE» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Vested Interests and The Nature of Peace are two books by Thorstein Veblen that go hand in hand. Veblen's main critique in The Vested Interests and the Common Man that business prospers by limiting supply in order to allow capitalists to dictate the highest possible prices, making theirs and interests of the government...
| Автор | Thorstein Veblen |
"The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation, and Other Essays" by Thorstein Veblen. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce...
| Автор | Thorstein Veblen |
e-artnow presents to you this unique collection of the best advices taken from modern guidance books and ancient wisdom. This meticulously edited self-help collection contains carefully picked out books about reaching financial success as well as personal peace and spiritual development. Table of Contents: Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Getting Rich The Science of Being Well How to Get What You Want William Walker Atkinson: The Secret of Success Thought-Force in Business and Everyday...
| Автор | Thorstein Veblen |
This meticulously edited collection contains the greatest books of ancient wisdom and modern guides to financial success, empowerment, personal development and peace, achieving the full potential of your mind and spirit: Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Getting Rich The Science of Being Well How to Get What You Want William Walker Atkinson: The Secret of Success Thought-Force in Business and Everyday Life The Power of Concentration P. T. Barnum: The Art of Money Getting The Humbugs...
| Автор | Thorstein Veblen |
This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was an American economist and sociologist. He is well known as a witty critic of capitalism. Veblen is famous for the idea of «conspicuous consumption.» Conspicuous consumption, along with «conspicuous leisure,» is performed to demonstrate wealth or mark social status. Content: The Theory of the Leisure Class The Theory...
| Автор | Thorstein Veblen |
This eBook edition of «The Engineers & the Price System» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Engineers and the Price System is a compilation of a series of papers, each of which mainly analyzes and criticizes the price system, planned obsolescence, and artificial scarcity. His position is that engineers, not workers, should overthrow capitalism. Veblen wrote this book during his occupation in The New School's development...
| Автор | Thorstein Veblen |