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Animism
Author_John Patrick Diggins
Behavioral economics
Bourgeoisie
Capitalism
Captain of industry
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Commodity
Competition
Darwinism
David Riesman
Division of labour
Economics
Economist
Economy
Employment
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Ethics
Explanation
False consciousness
H. L. Mencken
Hegemony
Homo economicus
Ideology
Individualism
Industrial society
Industrialisation
Institution
Intellectual history
John Dewey
Laborer
Lewis Mumford
Marxism
Mode of production
Modernity
New class
Ownership
Patriotism
Philosopher
Philosophy
Philosophy of history
Political economy
Pragmatism
Psychology
Reputation
Robert Heilbroner
Satire
School of thought
Self-interest
Skepticism
Slavery
Social class
Social Darwinism
Social science
Social theory
Sociology
Suggestion
Talcott Parsons
Technocracy
Technology
The Theory of Business Enterprise
The Theory of the Leisure Class
Theodor W. Adorno
Theory
Theory of value (economics)
Thorstein Veblen
Thought
Treatise
Value (ethics)
Value theory
Wealth
Workmanship
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691006543
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jun 1999
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Fired by Stanford and the University of Chicago but recommended by his peers to the presidency of the American Economic Association, Thorstein Veblen remains a baffling figure in American intellectual history. In part because he was an eccentric who shunned publicity, he has also been one of our most neglected. Veblen is known to the general public only as coiner of the term "conspicuous consumption," and to scholars primarily as one of many social critics of the reform-minded Progressive Era. This important critical biography--originally published as The Bard of Savagery and now appearing in paperback for the first time--attempts both to unravel the riddles that surround his reputation and to assess his varied and important contributions to modern social theory.
John Patrick Diggins is Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His previous books include Mussolini and Fascism: The View from America, The American Left in the Twentieth Century, Up from Communism: Conservative Odysseys in American Intellectual History, and The Liberal Persuasion: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and the Challenge of the American Past (Princeton).
