Veblen : the making of an economist who unmade economics
Economics Exploitation Leisure class Veblen, Thorstein, United States e-böcker
Harvard University Press
2020
EISBN 9780674250710
Theoretical and historical scaffolding.
Beginnings.
Entering and leaving.
Young philosopher.
Transition.
Young economist.
Working in the field.
"Thorstein Veblen's analysis of America's parasitic upper class, which plunders its wealth from productive workers, is widely attributed to his outsider status. But Charles Camic shows that Veblen's ideas did not derive from social marginality. Veblen was a professional economist whose fierce social critique was the work of an academic insider"--
Beginnings.
Entering and leaving.
Young philosopher.
Transition.
Young economist.
Working in the field.
"Thorstein Veblen's analysis of America's parasitic upper class, which plunders its wealth from productive workers, is widely attributed to his outsider status. But Charles Camic shows that Veblen's ideas did not derive from social marginality. Veblen was a professional economist whose fierce social critique was the work of an academic insider"--
