ABSTRACT
First Published in 2015. Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was a contemporary of John Dewey and C.S. Peirce and ranks as one of the seminal minds of his generation of American thinkers in economics and sociology. He was a caustic critic of American business culture and his prose being peppered with Latin vocabulary might have made his ideas difficult to comprehend to the layperson. This collection of his writings looks at Veblen's works, main concepts and enables the reader to sample the broad spectrum of his thought and to reach his or her own conclusions regarding its present relevance.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |100 pages
The Theory of the Leisure Class
chapter |2 pages
Preface
chapter |11 pages
Introductory
chapter |7 pages
Pecuniary Emulation
chapter |17 pages
Conspicuous Leisure
chapter |17 pages
Conspicuous Consumption
chapter |7 pages
The Pecuniary Standard of Living
chapter |26 pages
Pecuniary Canons of Taste
chapter |11 pages
Dress as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture
part |76 pages
In Criticism of Economists
chapter |26 pages
Industrial and Pecuniary Employments
chapter |15 pages
Why Is Economics Not an Evolutionary Science?
chapter |20 pages
The Preconceptions of Economic Science
chapter |13 pages
The Socialist Economics of Karl Marx and His Followers
part |51 pages
The Basis of Social Institutions
chapter |6 pages
Races and Peoples
chapter |11 pages
The Instinct of Workmanship
chapter |7 pages
Ownership and the Industrial Arts
chapter |9 pages
The Discipline of the Machine
chapter |9 pages
On the Merits of Borrowing
chapter |7 pages
On the Penalty of Taking the Lead
part |35 pages
The Case of the United States
chapter |11 pages
The Captain of Industry
chapter |8 pages
The Independent Farmer
chapter |14 pages
The Country Town
part |68 pages
Culture, Religion, and Education
chapter |18 pages
The Place of Science in Modern Civilization
chapter |8 pages
The Intellectual Pre-Eminence of Jews in Modern Europe
chapter |11 pages
Christian Morals and the Competitive System
chapter |5 pages
Salesmanship and the Churches
chapter |19 pages
The Higher Learning
chapter |5 pages
The “Great Man” and His “Just” Rewards
part |61 pages
On War, Peace, and Capitalism