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Veblen - The Making of an Economist Who Unmade Economics (Hardcover)
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A bold new biography of the thinker who demolished accepted
economic theories in order to expose how people of economic and
social privilege plunder their wealth from society’s productive
men and women. Thorstein Veblen was one of America’s most
penetrating analysts of modern capitalist society. But he was not,
as is widely assumed, an outsider to the social world he acidly
described. Veblen overturns the long-accepted view that Veblen’s
ideas, including his insights about conspicuous consumption and the
leisure class, derived from his position as a social outsider. In
the hinterlands of America’s Midwest, Veblen’s schooling
coincided with the late nineteenth-century revolution in higher
education that occurred under the patronage of the titans of the
new industrial age. The resulting educational opportunities carried
Veblen from local Carleton College to centers of scholarship at
Johns Hopkins, Yale, Cornell, and the University of Chicago, where
he studied with leading philosophers, historians, and economists.
Afterward, he joined the nation’s academic elite as a
professional economist, producing his seminal books The Theory of
the Leisure Class and The Theory of Business Enterprise. Until late
in his career, Veblen was, Charles Camic argues, the consummate
academic insider, engaged in debates about wealth distribution
raging in the field of economics. Veblen demonstrates how
Veblen’s education and subsequent involvement in those debates
gave rise to his original ideas about the social institutions that
enable wealthy Americans—a swarm of economically unproductive
“parasites”—to amass vast fortunes on the backs of productive
men and women. Today, when great wealth inequalities again command
national attention, Camic helps us understand the historical roots
and continuing reach of Veblen’s searing analysis of this
“sclerosis of the American soul.”
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Imprint: |
Harvard University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2020 |
Authors: |
Charles Camic
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Dimensions: |
235 x 156 x 44mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
504 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-674-65972-8 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-674-65972-4 |
Barcode: |
9780674659728 |
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