Title: Essays in our changing order
First published: 1934
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.
Subjects: World politics, World War, 1914-1918, Economics, World War (1914-1918) fast (OCoLC)fst01180746, Économie politique, Sociale wetenschappen, Veblen, thorstein, 1857-1929, Economics, philosophy, Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, General, Reference, Wirtschaftstheorie
Time periods: 1900-1945