Thorstein Veblen and the revival of free market capitalism /Janet T Knoedler

By: Janet T Knoedler ; Robert E Prasch ; Dell P ChamplinContributor(s): Janet T KnoedlerMaterial type: TextTextPublisher number: Variety Books Publishers Distributors | ;B-10,Street No-2,West Vinod Nagar,Delhi-110092Publication details: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar , ©2007Description: xxi, 239 pages ;24 cmISBN: 9781845425401Subject(s): Social SciencesGenre/Form: CapitalismDDC classification: 330.122092 KNO
Contents:
The place of science in society : progress, pragmatism, pluralism / Anne Mayhew -- Thorstein Veblen on the origins and meaning of private property / Robert E. Prasch -- Capital and the modern corporation / Eric R. Hake -- Pecuniary institutions : their role and effects / Glen Atkinson -- Veblen's missing theory of markets and exchange, or can you have an economic theory without a theory of market exchange? / William T. Waller -- Some myths of Veblenian institutionalism / Geoffrey M. Hodgson -- Veblen : economics raised to the cultural level / David Hamilton -- Veblen on higher education / Anne Mayhew -- Thorstein Veblen and the sabotage of democracy / Sidney Plotkin -- Getting to the good life : agents of change / Janet T. Knoedler.
Summary: Thorstein Veblen was a leading observer and analyst of capitalism. Featuring original essays by renowned Veblen scholars, this volume revisits his legacy. The contributors note that, with the restoration of laissez faire as the governing principle of contemporary economic ideology and policy-making, his insights are once again relevant.
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The place of science in society : progress, pragmatism, pluralism / Anne Mayhew --
Thorstein Veblen on the origins and meaning of private property / Robert E. Prasch --
Capital and the modern corporation / Eric R. Hake --
Pecuniary institutions : their role and effects / Glen Atkinson --
Veblen's missing theory of markets and exchange, or can you have an economic theory without a theory of market exchange? / William T. Waller --
Some myths of Veblenian institutionalism / Geoffrey M. Hodgson --
Veblen : economics raised to the cultural level / David Hamilton --
Veblen on higher education / Anne Mayhew --
Thorstein Veblen and the sabotage of democracy / Sidney Plotkin --
Getting to the good life : agents of change / Janet T. Knoedler.


Thorstein Veblen was a leading observer and analyst of capitalism. Featuring original essays by renowned Veblen scholars, this volume revisits his legacy. The contributors note that, with the restoration of laissez faire as the governing principle of contemporary economic ideology and policy-making, his insights are once again relevant.

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