Author:
Veblen, Thorstein, 1857-1929.
Imprint:New York, The Viking Press, 1934.
Descriptionxviii, 472 p. front. (port.) 20 cm.
Note:ESSAYS IN ECONOMICS: -- Economic theory in the calculable future -- Mr. Cummings's strictures on "the theory of the leisure class" -- Beginnings of ownership -- Barbarian status of women -- Economic theory of woman's dress -- Instinct of workmanship and the irksomeness of labor -- Army of the commonweal -- "Overproduction fallacy" -- Credit and prices -- Böhm-Bawerk's definition of capital, and the source of wages -- Fisher's rate of interest -- Fisher's capital and income MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS: -- Kant's critique of judgment -- Arts and crafts -- Christian morals and the competitive system -- Intellectual pre-eminence of Jews in modern Europe -- Experiment in eugenics WAR ESSAYS: -- Japanese lose hope for Germany -- Opportunity of Japan -- Menial servants during the period of the war -- Farm labor for the period of the war -- Farm labor and the I. W. W. -- War and higher learning -- Memorandum on a schedule of prices for the staple foodstuffs -- Suggestions touching the working program of an inquiry into the prospective terms of peace -- Outline of a policy for the control of the "economic penetration" of backward countries and of foreign investments -- Passing of national frontiers -- Policy of reconstruction -- Bolshevism is a menace: to whom? -- Peace -- Dementia præcox -- Between Bolshevism and war -- Editorials from "The Dial" -- Economic consequences of the peace -- List of book reviews written by Thorstein Veblen.
Bibliography Note:"A list of book reviews, written for 'The Journal of political economy' by Thorstein Veblen" : p. 471-472.
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