Thorstein Veblen - Theorist of the Leisure Class

About the author

John Patrick Diggins is Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His previous books include Mussolini and Fascism: The View from America, The American Left in the Twentieth Century, Up from Communism: Conservative Odysseys in American Intellectual History, and The Liberal Persuasion: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and the Challenge of the American Past (Princeton).

Summary

Fired by Stanford and the University of Chicago but recommended by his peers to the presidency of the American Economic Association, Thorstein Veblen remains a baffling figure in American intellectual history. This title unravels the riddles that surround his reputation and assesses his varied and important contributions to modern social theory.

Product details

• Authors: John Patrick Diggins, Diggins John Patrick
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.06.1999
• EAN: 9780691006543
• ISBN: 978-0-691-00654-3
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 490 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; USA, History of Ideas, Biography: business & industry, Economics, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Business, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, United States of America, USA, Sociology & anthropology, Biography: business and industry, Sociology and anthropology