Absentee Ownership: Business Enterprise in Recent Times: The Case of America
Thorstein Veblen(1857-1929) was perhaps the most famous American economist and social critic of his time. He taught at the universities of Chicago and Missouri, Stanford University, and the New School for Social Research. His many books includeThe Theory of Business Enterprise,The Higher Learning in America, andThe Theory of the Leisure Class, all available from Transaction.Marion J. Levy, Jr.(1918-2002) was Musgrave Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. His works includeLevy’s Laws of the Disillusionment of the True Liberal, The Structure of Societies,and several publications on Chinese and Japanese history.