num_pages: 280
description: Scholars attempting to place Veblen in a particular intellectual tradition will only succeed in reaping frustration and confusion until it is recognized that he was primarily ^Isui generis^R and eclectic. This is the recurring theme that is made explicit in the introduction, conclusion, and some of the chapters of this work. Veblen was a thinker of such depth and power that he was able to create his own intellectual paradigm. The result of his endeavors is that more than a few intellectuals including his followers, the institutional economists, have spent their careers trying to understand the paradigm and to develop it in several directions for their own purposes.
language: English
title: The Intellectual Legacy of Thorstein Veblen: Unresolved Issues
titlecomplete: The Intellectual Legacy of Thorstein Veblen: Unresolved Issues (Contributions in Economics and Economic History)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Praeger