The social economics of Thorstein Veblen
1. Introduction -- 2. Institutional economics -- 3. Instincts and endowments -- 4. Savages and barbarians -- 5. Cumulative causation -- 6. Consumption -- 7. Production -- 8. The profit motive -- 9. Corporation and credit -- 10. The age of irrelevance -- 11. Socialism : the intelligentsia and the pro...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cheltenham
Edward Elgar
2012
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| Collection: | Edward Elgar eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 1. Introduction -- 2. Institutional economics -- 3. Instincts and endowments -- 4. Savages and barbarians -- 5. Cumulative causation -- 6. Consumption -- 7. Production -- 8. The profit motive -- 9. Corporation and credit -- 10. The age of irrelevance -- 11. Socialism : the intelligentsia and the proletariat -- 12. Socialism : the engineers -- 13. The reversion to war -- 14. Perpetual peace -- 15. Neoclassical economics -- 16. Who was Thorstein Veblen? Thorstein Veblen was a multidisciplinary social scientist whose original insights continue to inspire debate. Rather than focusing on allocation, markets and scarcity, his perspective on economics was rather one of Darwinian evolution and perpetual development, unfolding conventions and interpersonal constraints. This interdisciplinary and comprehensive book determines that Veblen's disparate theories of conspicuous consumption, imperial Germany, the giant corporation and the speculation-led cycle all add up to a consistent and coherent world-view |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 338 p |
| ISBN: | 0857932187 9780857932181 9780857932198 |