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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His Life and Thought Stephen Edgell. SE STUD|ES IN INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS THE HETERODOX ECONOMICS OF GARDINER C. MEANS A COLLECTION Frederic S. Lee and Warren J. Samuels, editors UNDERGROUND ECONOMICS A DECADE OF INSTITUTIONALIST ...
His Life and Thought Stephen Edgell. SE STUD|ES IN INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS THE HETERODOX ECONOMICS OF GARDINER C. MEANS A COLLECTION Frederic S. Lee and Warren J. Samuels, editors UNDERGROUND ECONOMICS A DECADE OF INSTITUTIONALIST ...
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... economic factors in social development and a strong affinity with radical critiques of capitalist society” (1963, 180–81). At a time when functionalism was dominant, I was hooked, and I resolved to read the two books cited by Berger and ...
... economic factors in social development and a strong affinity with radical critiques of capitalist society” (1963, 180–81). At a time when functionalism was dominant, I was hooked, and I resolved to read the two books cited by Berger and ...
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... economic revolutions, notably democratization and industrialization, plus intellectual innovations, including socialism and the growth of science (Ritzer 1992). In addition, the personal experience of these factors in any national ...
... economic revolutions, notably democratization and industrialization, plus intellectual innovations, including socialism and the growth of science (Ritzer 1992). In addition, the personal experience of these factors in any national ...
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... economic change. The pecuniary priorities of the urban business classes and the role of farmers in this scheme found expression in Veblen's famed accounts of the American country town (see Vidich and Bensman 1968 [1958], quoted in part ...
... economic change. The pecuniary priorities of the urban business classes and the role of farmers in this scheme found expression in Veblen's famed accounts of the American country town (see Vidich and Bensman 1968 [1958], quoted in part ...
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... economic circumstances of farmers and working people who sought to resist the increasing influence of monopolistic industrial capitalism (Saloutos 1974). Specifically, it has been noted that Veblen “seems to have derived many of his ...
... economic circumstances of farmers and working people who sought to resist the increasing influence of monopolistic industrial capitalism (Saloutos 1974). Specifically, it has been noted that Veblen “seems to have derived many of his ...
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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