Essays in our changing order
By: Thorstein Veblen ; with a new introduction by Scott R. Bowman ; edited by Leon Ardzrooni.
Contributors: Ardzrooni, Leon, 1884-
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
Subjects: Economics.; World War, 1914-1918.; World politics -- 1900-1945.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1934.