Although Imperial Germany was begun before the United States
entered World War I, little in the book however relates to that
particular conflict. Rather, this is in large part a study of the
divergencies in cultural development between the English-speaking
peoples and the German-speaking peoples, and of the consequences
this produced in economic and social spheres. Suppressed by war
censors, Imperial Germany was again released after the war, and has
assumed a place as a major contribution to economics and sociology
alike.
The comments on the book have scarcely been altered by time.
Charles A. Beard noted that "Veblen wrote for the centuries, not
for the days, and his Imperial Germany ranks with his immortal
Theory of Business Enterprise." Wesley C. Mitchell, reflecting on
the book during World War II, wrote that "the natural causes that
made Imperial Germany efficient are still at work under the Nazi
regime, and the forecast that proved sound once may do so again."
Lewis Mumford called Imperial Germany "still the best picture of
the residual barbarisms in German civilization; the soil out of
which Nazism grew."
This new edition is graced with a brilliant and insightful
opening essay that is at once a commentary on Veblen's volume, and
a statement of the historic status of the German economy and
society. Written by Otto G. Mayer, director in a leading German
"Think Tank," HWWA-Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung-Hamburg,
editor of Intereconomics, a journal issued in English, and an
author of major policy statements on economic and social issues,
the new opening statement underscores the view of those who came
before, that Veblen's book is "a treasure chest of knowledge."
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