Essays in Our Changing Order

by Thorstein Veblen

Overview

Essays in Our Changing Order is split into three sections, Essays in Economics, Miscellaneous Papers, and War Essays. Veblen was in reality was one of those rare men who may be said to have been ahead of his time, ahead in the sense that what he said and thought was destined to be accepted by succeeding generations though they were rejected by his own. This early work by Thorstein Veblen was originally published in 1927, we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781447472926
Publisher:	Davies Press
Publication date:	01/10/2013
Pages:	494
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was perhaps the most famous American economist and social critic of his time. He taught at the universities of Chicago and Missouri, Stanford University, and the New School for Social Research. His many books include The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning in America, and The Theory of the Leisure Class, all available from Transaction.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Essays in Economics, Economic Theory in the Calculable Future, Mr. Cummings’s Strictures on “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, The Beginnings of Ownership, The Barbarian Status of Women, The Economic Theory of Woman’s Dress, The Instinct of Workmanship and the Irksomeness of Labor, The Army of the Commonweal, “The Overproduction Fallacy”, Credit and Prices, Bohm-Bawerk’s Definition of Capital, and the Source of Wages, Fisher’s Rate of Interest, Fisher’s Capital and Income, II. Miscellaneous Papers, Kant’s Critique of Judgment, Arts and Crafts, Christian Morals and the Competitive System, The Intellectual Pre-eminence of Jews in Modern Europe, An Experiment in Eugenics, III. War Essays, Japanese Lose Hope for Germany, The Opportunity of Japan, Menial Servants during the Period of the War, Farm Labor for the Period of the War, Farm Labor and the I.W.W, The War and Higher Learning, A Memorandum on a Schedule of Prices for the Staple Foodstuffs, Suggestions Touching the Working Program of an Inquiry into the Prospective, Terms of Peace, Outline of a Policy for the Control of the “Economic Penetration” of Backwar Countries and of Foreign Investments, The Passing of National Frontiers, A Policy of Reconstruction, Bolshevism Is a Menace—to Whom? Peace, Dementia Prucox, Between Bolshevism and War, Editorials from ‘The Dial” The Economic Consequences of the Peace

Editorial Reviews

<:st> Reprint of Veblen's 1934 classic (cited in ) with a new introduction by Scott R. Bowman; edited by L. Ardzrooni. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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