Thorstein Veblen
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this scathing book, the author produced a landmark study of affluent American society that exposes, with brilliant ruthlessness, the habits of production and waste that link invidious business tactics and barbaric social behavior. Veblen's analysis of the evolutionary process sees greed as the overriding motive in the modern economy, and with an impartial gaze he examines the human cost paid when social institutions exploit the consumption of unessential...
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1954.
Language
English
Description
Published at the beginning of World War I, this 1915 collection brings together thirty years of writings on the social and economic conditions that brought the Germany into global conflict. He considers the ancient origins of the German people, their historic conflict with England, and the economic policy of the imperial state.
Series
Great books of the Western world ; 57-58
Publisher
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English