Author

Publication

2020 - Harvard University Press

Language

English

Word Count

128,000 words, Guess

Page Count

512 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780674250710
  • ISBN-100674250710
  • Better World Books9780674250710
  • Open LibraryOL34142397M

Classifications

  • LCCHB119

Description

"Thorstein Veblen's analysis of America's parasitic upper class, which plunders its wealth from productive workers, is widely attributed to his outsider status. But Charles Camic shows that Veblen's ideas did not derive from social marginality. Veblen was a professional economist whose fierce social critique was the work of an academic insider"--

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Veblen: The Making of an Economist Who Unmade EconomicsHarvard University Press2020-01-01

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