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  • The Complete Works of Thorstein Veblen. Illustrated

    The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning in America, On the Nature of Capital and Others

    The Complete Works of Thorstein Veblen is a comprehensive and thought-provoking collection of writings by Thorstein Veblen, one of the most original and influential critics of modern economic and social systems. This illustrated edition brings together his most important works, including The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning in America, On the ... Read more

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  • The Theory of the Leisure Class

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Veblen's landmark study of affluent American society exposes the 'pecuniary culture' and 'conspicuous consumption' that results when unessential goods are exploited at the expense of production of true value. This new edition examines Veblen's still pertinent arguments. - ;'Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.' In The Theory of the ... Read more

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  • THORSTEIN VEBLEN Ultimate Collection: 8 Books & 50+ Business Essays and Articles in Warfare and Economics (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Capitalism, War, Industry, and Social Critique

    This expansive collection gathers Thorstein Veblen's major books with more than fifty essays on business, war, industry, and economic institutions. Across works such as The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Theory of Business Enterprise, and The Engineers and the Price System, Veblen combines satire, anthropological observation, and institutional analysis to expose the habits of status, waste, ... Read more

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  • Imperial Germany & the Industrial Revolution (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. The Economic Rise as a Fuel for Political Radicalism & The Background Origins of WW1

    In Imperial Germany & the Industrial Revolution, Thorstein Veblen offers a penetrating institutional analysis of Germany's rapid ascent as an industrial power. Written in his characteristically ironic, exacting prose, the book examines how modern machine industry developed within an older framework of dynastic authority, military discipline, and bureaucratic organization. Set against the liberal ... Read more

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  • Imperial Germany & the Industrial Revolution

    Enriched edition. The Economic Rise as a Fuel for Political Radicalism & The Background Origins of WW1

    In 'Imperial Germany & the Industrial Revolution' by Thorstein Veblen, the author delves into the economic and social changes brought about by industrialization in Germany during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Veblen's analytical and critical approach to understanding the impact of industrialization on society adds depth to the discussion of the period. The book is written in a scholarly ... Read more

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  • IMPERIAL GERMANY AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: The Background Origins of World War I - Economic Rise as a Fuel for Political Radicalism (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Industry and Autocracy

    In Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution, Veblen offers a searching inquiry into how Germany's rapid industrial ascent transformed the balance of European power and helped prepare the mental and institutional ground for war. Written in his characteristic idiom—dryly ironic, densely analytic, and alert to the hidden logic of institutions—the book situates German capitalism within the ... Read more

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  • The Theory of the Leisure Class,

    The Theory of the Leisure Class, by Thorstein Veblen. ... Read more

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  • The Theory of the Leisure Class

    The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (1899), by Thorstein Veblen, 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 stratification of people and the division of labour, which are the social institutions of the feudal period (9th – 15th centuries) that have ... Read more

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  • The Theory of the Leisure Class

    This scathing critique of America's preoccupation with wealth and status in the Gilded Age continues to resonate more than a century after it was first publishedAccording to economist Thorstein Veblen, the leisure class produces nothing, contributes nothing, and creates nothing, yet exercises a peculiar control over American society. The shallowness of their interests—from fashion to sports to ... Read more

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  • Thorstein Veblen: 3 Books

    This file includes: The Theory of the Leisure Class, An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace, and The Pleace of Science in Modern Civilisation and Other Essays. According to Wikipedia: "Thorstein Bunde Veblen, born Torsten Bunde Veblen (July 30, 1857 August 3, 1929) was an American economist and sociologist, and a leader of the institutional economics movement. Besides his technical work he was a ... Read more

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  • The Theory of the Leisure Class

    That the contemporary lords of the manor, the businessmen who own the means of production, have employed themselves in the economically unproductive practices of conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure, which are useless activities that contribute neither to the economy nor to the material production of the useful goods and services required for the functioning of society; while it is the ... Read more

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  • The Theory of the Leisure Class

    *** Premium Ebook ***Veblen was a sociologist as much as he was an economist. "The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions" is a treatise on economics and a social critique of conspicuous consumption, as a function of social class and of consumerism. Published in 1899, it presents the evolutionary development of human institutions (social and economic) that shape society. ... Read more

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