Essays in Our Changing Order

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Essays in Our Changing Order is the ninth volume in the collected works of America's pre-eminent social scientist. Each volume has a new opening essay, in this case, a comprehensive review of Veblen's works by Scott Bowman that stands by itself as a premier statement. Using an innovative framework, Bowman sees Veblen as concerned with three unifying themes; the dynamic interrelationships between instinct, habits of thought, environment, and social change in human evolution; the essential contradiction between business and industry sustained by the instinctual dominance of pecuniary exploit over workmanlike efficiency: and the role of ideological and animistic thinking in human affairs. This volume of Veblen's most important studies, published posthumously in 1936, illustrates and embellishes the themes Bowman outlines in a variety of ways, and is remarkable for its contemporanity and literary freshness.

subjects: World politics,  World War, 1914-1918,  Economics,  World War (1914-1918) fast (OCoLC)fst01180746,  Économie politique,  Sociale wetenschappen,  Veblen, thorstein, 1857-1929,  Economics, philosophy,  Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918,  BUSINESS & ECONOMICS,  General,  Reference,  Wirtschaftstheorie

Times: 1900-1945