The Higher Learning in America Hardcover Edition

by Thorstein Veblen (Author)

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ISBN-13: 978-1602067479

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At the time of its initial publication in 1904, The Higher Learning in America was known in educated circles as the most reflective study ever made of the university system in America. Veblen's evaluation of the misleading notions and erroneous beliefs were inherent in "the higher learning" was received as fair by most academics. As a result, many believed he paved the way to an improved age in college education. Just as applicable today as they were decades ago, his sophisticated style remains deprecatingly amusing; his biting critique just as disquieting as it was at the turn of the 19th century. The Higher Learning in America remains a penetrating book by one of America's greatest social critics. American economist and sociologist THORSTEIN BUNDE VEBLEN (1857-1929) was educated at Carleton College, Johns Hopkins University and Yale University. He coined the phrase "conspicuous consumption." Among his most famous works are The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), The Theory of Business Enterprise (1904), and Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution (1915).

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Michael S

Over my head.

Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2016

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Interesting.

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Joanna Monti-Masel

Do not buy the kindle edition

Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2013

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The book is great, but don't buy the kindle edition. The formatting is atrocious. Words are routinely broken up between lines, without even so much as a hyphen between them.

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Zedder

Too little wit, too late

Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2004

To be honest, a bit of a disappointment, especially after the build-up it receives in the chapter on Veblen in Heilbroner's classic The Worldly Philosophers. As always, Veblen tends toward the verbose, but here your effort is rarely rewarded with the wit that pervades Veblen's earlier works such as "A Plea for Cannibalism" and "An Apology for a Toper". It's quite a bit into the book before Veblen suggests his remedy for bloated American universities: simply fire everyone who works in the administrations, because all of their work is superfluous anyway. While this suggestion struck a sympathetic chord with me-as my own frustrating experiences with the multi-layers of bureaucracy at the University of Chicago probably mirror Veblen's own-this aside came too late in the book to relieve my overall boredom with it.

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TRACEY YEN PETERSON

Great book

Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2022

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Amazing author

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