Veblen
Subtitle: The Making of an Economist Who Unmade Economics
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780674659728
Description: "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"--