The Vested Interests And The Common Man An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation

Author : Thorstein Veblen
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THE VESTED INTERESTS & THE NATURE OF PEACE by Thorstein Veblen Pdf

This eBook edition of "THE VESTED INTERESTS & THE NATURE OF PEACE" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Vested Interests and The Nature of Peace are two books by Thorstein Veblen that go hand in hand. Veblen's main critique in The Vested Interests and the Common Man that business prospers by limiting supply in order to allow capitalists to dictate the highest possible prices, making theirs and interests of the government clearly in the opposition to the interests of the common man. Veblen goes further stating that not only that common man doesn't profit, but he is also damaged in this relationship considering social repercussions of capitalistic industry. An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation is a Veblen's book that came as a product of his work with a group that had been commissioned by President Woodrow Wilson to analyze possible peace settlements for World War I. Veblen here claims that patriotism is based on the idea of superiority of one nation over others and is often abused by governments especially in imperial monarchies. He explicitly says that the peace between democratic states and imperial monarchies can't be kept without disbanding one form of government and these claims were later confirmed. Working on this book marked a series of distinct changes in Veblen's later career path. Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was an American economist and sociologist. He is well known as a witty critic of capitalism. Veblen is famous for the idea of "conspicuous consumption." Conspicuous consumption, along with "conspicuous leisure," is performed to demonstrate wealth or mark social status. Veblen explains the concept in his best-known book, The Theory of the Leisure Class. Within the history of economic thought, Veblen is considered the leader of the institutional economics movement.

Author : Thorstein Veblen
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Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Education
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An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation by Thorstein Veblen Pdf

Author : Thorstein Veblen
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Page : 720 pages
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Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Political Science
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THE COLLECTED WORKS OF THORSTEIN VEBLEN: Business Theories, Economic Articles & Essays by Thorstein Veblen Pdf

This unique edition of "THE COLLECTED WORKS OF THORSTEIN VEBLEN: Business Theories, Economic Articles & Essays" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: The Theory of the Leisure Class The Theory of Business Enterprise The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation The Higher Learning in America The Vested Interests and the Common Man The Engineers and the Price System The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation The Evolution of the Scientific Point of View Why Is Economics Not an Evolutionary Science? The Preconceptions of Economic Science The Limitations of Marginal Utility Industrial and Pecuniary Employments On the Nature of Capital Some Neglected Points in the Theory of Socialism The Socialist Economics of Karl Marx Panem et Circenses Böhm-Bawerk's Definition of Capital and the Source of Wages The Overproduction Fallacy The Price of Wheat since 1867 Adolph Wagner's New Treatise The Food Supply and the Price of Wheat The Army of the Commonweal The Economic Theory of Women's Dress The Instinct of Workmanship and the Irksomeness of Labor The Beginning of Ownership The Barbarian Status of Women Mr. Cummings's Strictures on "The Theory of the Leisure Class" The Later Railway Combinations Levasseur on Hand and Machine Labor The use of loan credit in modern business Credit and Prices Fisher's Capital and Income The Industrial System and the Captains of Industry The Captains of Finance and the Engineers The Opportunity if Japan The Japanese Lose Hopes for Germany On the General Principles of a Policy of Reconstruction The Passing of National Frontiers Farm Labor for the Period of the War Bolshevism is a Menace to Whom? ….

Author : Thorstein Veblen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
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Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1435300653

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An Inquiry Into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation by Thorstein Veblen Pdf

One of the great thinkers of the early 20th century, American economist and sociologist THORSTEIN BUNDE VEBLEN (1857-1929) is best remembered for coining the phrase "conspicuous consumption." In the waning days of World War I, he turned his expertise on a pressing issue of the day: how to create a lasting, healthy peace, and how industry might contribute to it. In this 1917 book, Veblen explores... . how the concept of patriotism can undermine efforts toward peace . how modern commerce can unify nations . why honor must be sustained by surrendering nations . how war in the 20th century is a battle between modes of government and national character . and more. ALSO FROM COSIMO: Veblen's The Vested Interests and the Common Man, The Theory of Business Enterprise, and Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution

Author : Adam Smith
Publisher : DigiCat
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The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith Pdf

The Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. The book offers one of the world's first collected descriptions of what builds nations' wealth, and is today a fundamental work in classical economics. By reflecting upon the economics at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the book touches upon such broad topics as the division of labor, productivity, and free markets. The Wealth of Nations was the product of seventeen years of notes and earlier works, as well as an observation of conversation among economists of the time concerning economic and societal conditions during the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The result was a treatise which sought to offer a practical application for reformed economic theory to replace the mercantilist and physiocratic economic theories that were becoming less relevant in the time of industrial progress and innovation.

Author : Robert A. Cord
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1088 pages
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Category : Business & Economics
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The Palgrave Companion to Chicago Economics by Robert A. Cord Pdf

The University of Chicago has been and continues to be one of the most important global centres for economics. With six chapters on themes in Chicago economics and 33 chapters on the lives and work of Chicago economists, this volume shows how economics became established at the University, how it produced some of the world’s best-known economists, including Frank Knight, Milton Friedman and Robert Lucas, and how it remains a global force for the very best in teaching and research in economics. With original contributions from a stellar cast, this volume provides economists – especially those interested in macroeconomics and the history of economic thought – with an in-depth analysis of Chicago economics.

Author : John Cunningham Wood
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 716 pages
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Release : 1993
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Thorstein Veblen by John Cunningham Wood Pdf

138 articles are arranged thematically to give easy access to the intellectual processes of this influencial economist. Volume 1 deals with his life and perspectives, volume 2 with "political economy" and volume 3 on "Specialized topics

Author : Thorstein Veblen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 232 pages
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Release : 2013-11-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781627936149

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Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation by Thorstein Veblen Pdf

One of the great thinkers of the early 20th century, American economist and sociologist THORSTEIN BUNDE VEBLEN (1857-1929) is best remembered for coining the phrase "conspicuous consumption." In the waning days of World War I, he turned his expertise on a pressing issue of the day: how to create a lasting, healthy peace, and how industry might contribute to it. In this 1917 book, Veblen explores... . how the concept of patriotism can undermine efforts toward peace . how modern commerce can unify nations . why honor must be sustained by surrendering nations . how war in the 20th century is a battle between modes of government and national character . and more. ALSO FROM COSIMO: Veblen's The Vested Interests and the Common Man, The Theory of Business Enterprise, and Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution

Author : Thorstein Veblen
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 265 pages
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Release : 2023-12-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : EAN:8596547745792

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The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts by Thorstein Veblen Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. "The following work attempts an analysis of such correlation as is visible between industrial use and wont and those other institutional facts that go to make up any given phase of civilisation. It is assumed that in the growth of culture, as in its current maintenance, the facts of technological use and wont are fundamental and definitive, in the sense that they underlie and condition the scope and method of civilization in other than the technological respect, but not in such a sense as to preclude or overlook the degree in which these other conventions of any given civilisation in their turn react on the state of the industrial arts. The analysis proceeds on the materialistic assumptions of modern science, but without prejudice to the underlying question as to the ulterior competency of this materialistic conception considered as a metaphysical tenet. The inquiry simply accepts these mechanistic assumptions of material science for the purpose in hand, since these afford the currently acceptable terms of solution for any scientific problem of the kind in the present state of preconceptions on this head..." (Preface) Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was an American economist and sociologist. He is well known as a witty critic of capitalism. Veblen is famous for the idea of "conspicuous consumption." Conspicuous consumption, along with "conspicuous leisure," is performed to demonstrate wealth or mark social status. Veblen explains the concept in his best-known book, The Theory of the Leisure Class. Within the history of economic thought, Veblen is considered the leader of the institutional economics movement. Veblen's distinction between "institutions" and "technology" is still called the Veblenian dichotomy by contemporary economists.

Author : Phillip Anthony O’Hara
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 447 pages
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Release : 2022-08-29
Category : Political Science
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Principles of Institutional and Evolutionary Political Economy by Phillip Anthony O’Hara Pdf

This is the very first book to explicitly both detail the core general principles of institutional and evolutionary political economy and also apply the principles to current world problems such as the coronavirus crisis, climate change, corruption, AI-Robotics, policy-governance, money and financial instability, terrorism, AIDS-HIV and the nurturance gap. No other book has ever detailed explicitly such core principles and concepts nor ever applied them explicitly to numerous current major problems. The core general principles and concepts in this book, which are outlined and detailed include historical specificity & evolution; hegemony & uneven development; circular & cumulative causation; heterogeneous groups & agents; contradiction & creative destruction; uncertainty; innovation; and policy & governance. This book details the nature of how these principles and concepts can be used to explain current critical issues and problems throughout the world. This book includes updated chapters that have won two journal research Article of the Year Awards on climate change (one from the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy, EAEPE); as well as a Presidential address to the Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE) on corruption. The structure of the book starts with two chapters on the principles of institutional and evolutionary political economy: firstly their history, and secondly a chapter on the contemporary nature of the principles and concepts. This is followed by nine chapters applying some of the core principles to current world problems such as the coronacrisis, climate change, corruption, AI-robotics, policy, money & financial instability, terrorism, HIV-AIDS and the nurturance gap. The book finishes with a conclusion, a glossary of major terms and an index. The author’s principles are well established in the literature and this book provides a detailed exposition of them and their application.

Author : Thorstein Veblen
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 369 pages
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Release : 2006-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781596058828

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Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution by Thorstein Veblen Pdf

OF INTEREST TO: students of economics, readers of European historyThe traditions of the German people, including the personnel of the civil service, are traditions of frugality and parsimony... and these are fortifed in this connection by a traditional loyalty of service to a master, to whom the civil servant stands in a relation of personal stewardship.-from "Economic Policy of the Imperial State"One of the great thinkers of the early 20th century, American economist and sociologist THORSTEIN BUNDE VEBLEN (1857-1929) is best remembered for coining the phrase "conspicuous consumption" and, in this 1915 work, explaining how the stage was set for something like the Third Reich in Germany decades before its appearance. Veblen describes: . how the pagan past of the Germans gave rise to their modern character. how Germany's appropriation of industrial technology limited its cultural growth. how a medieval perspective endured in Germany into its imperial era. how the dominance of Prussia impacted Germany as a whole. and more.ALSO FROM COSIMO: Veblen's The Vested Interests and the Common Man, The Theory of Business Enterprise, and An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation

Author : Thorstein Veblen
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 2581 pages
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Release : 2024-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : EAN:8596547806615

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The Complete Works of Thorstein Veblen by Thorstein Veblen Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Works of Thorstein Veblen" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was an American economist and sociologist. He is well known as a witty critic of capitalism. Contents: The Theory of the Leisure Class The Theory of Business Enterprise The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation The Higher Learning in America The Vested Interests and the Common Man The Engineers and the Price System The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation The Evolution of the Scientific Point of View Why Is Economics Not an Evolutionary Science? The Preconceptions of Economic Science The Limitations of Marginal Utility Industrial and Pecuniary Employments On the Nature of Capital Some Neglected Points in the Theory of Socialism The Socialist Economics of Karl Marx Panem et Circenses Böhm-Bawerk's Definition of Capital and the Source of Wages The Overproduction Fallacy The Price of Wheat since 1867 Adolph Wagner's New Treatise The Food Supply and the Price of Wheat The Army of the Commonweal The Economic Theory of Women's Dress The Instinct of Workmanship and the Irksomeness of Labor The Beginning of Ownership The Barbarian Status of Women Mr. Cummings's Strictures on "The Theory of the Leisure Class" The Later Railway Combinations Levasseur on Hand and Machine Labor The use of loan credit in modern business Credit and Prices Fisher's Capital and Income The Industrial System and the Captains of Industry The Captains of Finance and the Engineers The Opportunity if Japan The Japanese Lose Hopes for Germany On the General Principles of a Policy of Reconstruction The Passing of National Frontiers Farm Labor for the Period of the War Bolshevism is a Menace to Whom? ....

Author : Thorstein Veblen
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 2583 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : EAN:8596547745778

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THORSTEIN VEBLEN Ultimate Collection by Thorstein Veblen Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "THORSTEIN VEBLEN Ultimate Collection: 8 Books & 50+ Business Essays and Articles in Warfare and Economics" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was an American economist and sociologist. He is well known as a witty critic of capitalism. Contents: The Theory of the Leisure Class The Theory of Business Enterprise The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation The Higher Learning in America The Vested Interests and the Common Man The Engineers and the Price System The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation The Evolution of the Scientific Point of View Why Is Economics Not an Evolutionary Science? The Preconceptions of Economic Science The Limitations of Marginal Utility Industrial and Pecuniary Employments On the Nature of Capital Some Neglected Points in the Theory of Socialism The Socialist Economics of Karl Marx Panem et Circenses Böhm-Bawerk's Definition of Capital and the Source of Wages The Overproduction Fallacy The Price of Wheat since 1867 Adolph Wagner's New Treatise The Food Supply and the Price of Wheat The Army of the Commonweal The Economic Theory of Women's Dress The Instinct of Workmanship and the Irksomeness of Labor The Beginning of Ownership The Barbarian Status of Women Mr. Cummings's Strictures on "The Theory of the Leisure Class" The Later Railway Combinations Levasseur on Hand and Machine Labor The use of loan credit in modern business Credit and Prices Fisher's Capital and Income The Industrial System and the Captains of Industry The Captains of Finance and the Engineers The Opportunity if Japan The Japanese Lose Hopes for Germany On the General Principles of a Policy of Reconstruction The Passing of National Frontiers Farm Labor for the Period of the War Bolshevism is a Menace to Whom? ....

Author : Thorstein Veblen
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 2582 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : EAN:8596547672579

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The Complete Works of Thorstein Veblen: Economics Books, Business Essays & Political Articles by Thorstein Veblen Pdf

This unique edition of "THE COMPLETE WORKS OF THORSTEIN VEBLEN" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was an American economist and sociologist. He is well known as a witty critic of capitalism. Contents: The Theory of the Leisure Class The Theory of Business Enterprise The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation The Higher Learning in America The Vested Interests and the Common Man The Engineers and the Price System The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation The Evolution of the Scientific Point of View Why Is Economics Not an Evolutionary Science? The Preconceptions of Economic Science The Limitations of Marginal Utility Industrial and Pecuniary Employments On the Nature of Capital Some Neglected Points in the Theory of Socialism The Socialist Economics of Karl Marx Panem et Circenses Böhm-Bawerk's Definition of Capital and the Source of Wages The Overproduction Fallacy The Price of Wheat since 1867 Adolph Wagner's New Treatise The Food Supply and the Price of Wheat The Army of the Commonweal The Economic Theory of Women's Dress The Instinct of Workmanship and the Irksomeness of Labor The Beginning of Ownership The Barbarian Status of Women Mr. Cummings's Strictures on "The Theory of the Leisure Class" The Later Railway Combinations Levasseur on Hand and Machine Labor The use of loan credit in modern business Credit and Prices Fisher's Capital and Income The Industrial System and the Captains of Industry The Captains of Finance and the Engineers The Opportunity if Japan The Japanese Lose Hopes for Germany On the General Principles of a Policy of Reconstruction The Passing of National Frontiers Farm Labor for the Period of the War Bolshevism is a Menace to Whom? ....

Author : Maciej J. Grodzicki,Anna Zachorowska-Mazurkiewicz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781040048726

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Public Policy in Transition Economies by Maciej J. Grodzicki,Anna Zachorowska-Mazurkiewicz Pdf

Public policies are usually carefully designed to address a particular problem, but they are also shaped and influenced by the sociocultural heritage of a particular country. This volume explores the origins of economic and other public policies in Central and Eastern Europe. This region makes for a particularly interesting case because after going through a major system change – transitioning from a command economy into a market economy – many of the key policies were written anew. The contributors to this book look at key policy areas at the intersection of state and private sectors, including industrial, pension, energy, and competition policies. The chapters examine key questions such as: how did these policies evolve from the time of transition to their final form? What were the main drivers of policy conduct and factors influencing major policy choices? How does the historical context impact contemporary policy space? Throughout the volume, an institutional approach is adopted, according to which policies are perceived as the outcome of top‐down design, filtered through social institutions inherited from the past. With this approach, this book presents a long‐running assessment, over 30 years, of policymaking in transition economies, which were subject to profound changes throughout the period. This book will be of interest to readers in institutional economics, policy studies, transition economies, and the recent history of Eastern Europe.