What Veblen Taught: Selected Writings of Thorstein Veblen

New York: The Viking Press, 1936. First Viking Edition. 12mo in green cloth boards; deckle edges; L, 503 pages; 20 cm Very good (-); clean pages; binding sturdy; prior owner inscription in ink on endpapers; sunning to spine. Hardcover.

Veblen coined the term "conspicuous consumption" and was a critic of capitalism in the U.S. Contents: The place of science in modern civilization. The pre-conceptions of economic science. The limitations of marginal utility. The savage state of the industrial arts. The theory of the leisure class. The cultural incidence of the machine process. The case of America. The captains of finance and the engineers. The dynastic state. On the state and its relation to war and peace.

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