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.
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For an understanding of Veblen pivotal importance attaches to Diggins's ... observation that `Veblen was perhaps the only American social scientist of the nineteenth century who was intellectually prepared to challenge the economic theories of Karl Marx on their own terms.' -- John Walton, Social Science Quarterly
John Diggins ... is exceedingly perceptive in focusing on the role attributed by Veblen to status emulation in the legitimation and reinforcement of power and the hegemony of established institutions and systems. -- Warren J. Samuels, Social Science Quarterly
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A most important, incisive, and readable study of Thorstein Veblen. (John Kenneth Galbraith )
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VEBLEN'S Theory of the Leisure Class was published in 1899, the eve of America's auspicious entrance into the twentieth century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
peaceful savagery, handicraft era, parental bent, imbecile institutions, barbarian status, archaic traits, orthodox economic theory, consensus scholars Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World War One, Adam Smith, Imperial Germany, Thorstem Veblen, United States, David Riesman, Max Weber, Social Darwinism, Charles Beard, John Dewey, University of Chicago, Bolshevik Revolution, New York, Daniel Bell, John Stuart Mill, Lewis Mumford, New England, The Place of Science, Thorstein Veblen, John Adams, Joseph Dorfman, Karl Marx, Lester Ward, Middle Ages, The Theory of Business Enterprise New!
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VEBLEN'S Theory of the Leisure Class was published in 1899, the eve of America's auspicious entrance into the twentieth century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
peaceful savagery, handicraft era, parental bent, imbecile institutions, barbarian status, archaic traits, orthodox economic theory, consensus scholars Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World War One, Adam Smith, Imperial Germany, Thorstem Veblen, United States, David Riesman, Max Weber, Social Darwinism, Charles Beard, John Dewey, University of Chicago, Bolshevik Revolution, New York, Daniel Bell, John Stuart Mill, Lewis Mumford, New England, The Place of Science, Thorstein Veblen, John Adams, Joseph Dorfman, Karl Marx, Lester Ward, Middle Ages, The Theory of Business Enterprise New!
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