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Book Description: Transaction Publishers, United States, 2001. Paperback. Book Condition: New. New edition. 230 x 154 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. Veblen's classic position on social status is intertwined with his interest in economic class and the political prospects of that class. "The Vested Interests" is squarely in that tradition. It aims to show how and why a discrepancy has arisen between the accepted principles of law and custom that underlie the business enterprise and the efficient management of industry. He also speculates on the civil and political difficulties inspired by this discrepancy between business civilization, and the social order. Many of the essays in this collection originally appeared in Dial from October 1918 to January 1919. "The Vested Interests" includes: "The Instability of Knowledge and Belief," "The Stability of Law and Custom," "The State of the Industrial Arts," "Free Income," "The Vested Interests," "The Divine Rights of Nations," "Live and Let Live," and "The Vested Interests and the Common Man." In his new introduction, Irving Louis Horowitz discusses Veblen as an economist turned sociologist. He explores the dichotomies in Veblen's approach, describing it as radical in input and conservative in outcome. Veblen was analytical in design, but ideological in rhetoric. He was materialist in his economic analysis, but idealistic in his emphasis on law and custom as regulatory mechanisms of the management of society. Horowitz also describes the difficulties Veblen experienced in placing his steadfastly nineteenth century ideals in the context of 1920s America. This is the final volume in Transaction's series of the essential works of Thorstein Veblen. It will be of central interest to sociologists as well as economists, particularly those interested in the history of ideas. Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was perhaps the most famous American economist and social critic of his time. He taught at the Universities of Chicago and Missouri, Stanford University, and the New School for Social Research. His many books include "The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning in America, Absentee Ownership," and "The Theory of the Leisure Class," all available from Transaction. Irving Louis Horowitz is university professor and Hannah Arendt Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey where he taught for thirty years. He also serves as editorial director and chairman of the board of Transaction Publishers. Among his writings is "Behemoth: Main Currents in the History and Theory of Political Sociology.". Bookseller Inventory # AAN9780765808653

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Book Description: Transaction Pub, 2001. Paperback. Book Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 128 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # __076580865X

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