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Essays in Our Changing Order (Hardcover)
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Essays in Our Changing Order (Hardcover)
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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 interrelationships between
instinct, habits of thought, environment, and social change in
human evolution; the essential contradiction between business and
industry sustained by the instinctual dominance of pecuniary
exploit over workmanlike efficiency; and the role of ideological
and animistic thinking in human affairs. This volume of Veblen's
most important studies, published posthumously in 1936, illustrates
and embellishes the themes Bowman outlines in a variety of ways,
and is remarkable for its contemporanity and literary freshness.
Veblen's editor, Leon Ardzrooni, divides the work into three major
segments: essays on economics, including the history of the field;
miscellaneous papers, which nearly all come to rest on matters of
religion and philosophy; and what Ardzrooni calls war essays, which
again reveal a very worldly and wise observer of current events and
critic of national policies. What is so astonishing is the
timeliness of these seemingly time bound concerns: whether dealing
with the condition of women, the intellectual contributions of
Jews, farm labor and unions, or the meaning of the Bolshevik
Revolution, Veblen confronts us with insights into still-unfinished
business.
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