Professor Charles Camic’s book, “Veblen: The Making of an Economist Who Unmade Economics,” is a new biography on one of America’s most important economic thinkers
January 16, 2021
Sociology Professor Charles Camic’s new book, Veblen: The Making of an Economist Who Unmade Economics, is a new biography on Thorstein Veblen who was one of America’s most important economic thinkers of modern capitalist society.
From Harvard University Press:
“A bold new biography of the thinker who demolished accepted economic theories in order to expose how people of economic and social privilege plunder their wealth from society’s productive men and women.”
“Thorstein Veblen was one of America’s most penetrating analysts of modern capitalist society. But he was not, as is widely assumed, an outsider to the social world he acidly described. Veblen overturns the long-accepted view that Veblen’s ideas, including his insights about conspicuous consumption and the leisure class, derived from his position as a social outsider.”
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