Thorstein Veblen: Theorist of the Leisure Class

by John Patrick Diggins

Book Overview

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. In part because he was an eccentric who shunned publicity, he has also been one of our most neglected. Veblen is known to the general public only as coiner of the term "conspicuous consumption," and to scholars primarily as one of many social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691006547
• ISBN13: 9780691006543
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"