Veblen in Perspective: His Life and ThoughtRoutledge, 01/06/2015 - 224 páginas This work discusses the impact and contemporary relevance of the work of Thorstein Veblen, as well as the source of his ideas. It suggests that he was one of the first modern sociologists of consumption whose analysis of contemporary display and fashion anticipated later theories and research. |
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... CAPITALISM Rick Tilman, editor ACTIVIST UNIONISM THE INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS OF SOLOMON BARKIN Donald R. Stabile BEYOND DISSENT ESSAYS IN INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS Philip A. Klein THE UNITED NATIONS AT THE CROSSROADS OF REFORM Wendell ...
... CAPITALISM Rick Tilman, editor ACTIVIST UNIONISM THE INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS OF SOLOMON BARKIN Donald R. Stabile BEYOND DISSENT ESSAYS IN INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS Philip A. Klein THE UNITED NATIONS AT THE CROSSROADS OF REFORM Wendell ...
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... capitalist society” (1963, 180–81). At a time when functionalism was dominant, I was hooked, and I resolved to read ... capitalism. After returning to and completing my empirical social research on middleclass couples (Edgell 1980), I ...
... capitalist society” (1963, 180–81). At a time when functionalism was dominant, I was hooked, and I resolved to read ... capitalism. After returning to and completing my empirical social research on middleclass couples (Edgell 1980), I ...
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... capitalism by virtue of his farming family of origin and his first wife's capitalist family of origin. According to Andrew Veblen, the Veblen farmstead “was an outstanding case of 'self sufficiency,” and he described his parents as ...
... capitalism by virtue of his farming family of origin and his first wife's capitalist family of origin. According to Andrew Veblen, the Veblen farmstead “was an outstanding case of 'self sufficiency,” and he described his parents as ...
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... capitalism. Typically, he portrayed them not as cultural heroes, but as predators, adept at “capitalistic sabotage ... capitalists, especially those “to do with railways,” in the name of profit and at the cost of “industrial ...
... capitalism. Typically, he portrayed them not as cultural heroes, but as predators, adept at “capitalistic sabotage ... capitalists, especially those “to do with railways,” in the name of profit and at the cost of “industrial ...
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... capitalism against the onslaught of an increasingly powerful corporate capitalism (McMath 1993). This point was not lost on Veblen, who noted that pioneer farmers “have been culitivators of the main chance as well as of the fertile soil ...
... capitalism against the onslaught of an increasingly powerful corporate capitalism (McMath 1993). This point was not lost on Veblen, who noted that pioneer farmers “have been culitivators of the main chance as well as of the fertile soil ...
Índice
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2 The Mistaken Marginality of the Man from Mars | 30 |
Ethnicity and Evolutionism | 57 |
Back to the Future? | 76 |
5 The Conspicuous Conservation of Leisure Class Culture | 101 |
Predatory Institutions | 117 |
Workmanship Institutions | 137 |
8 Conclusions | 160 |
References | 169 |
Index | 185 |
About the Author | 209 |
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