Author: Diggins, John Patrick
Title: Thorstein Veblen: Theorist of the Leisure Class
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, (1999). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xxxv,261 pp. Some minor rubbing. Some light binding soil. VG. ¶ Contents:The Milieu & the Man: Veblen's America; Enter Veblen: "Disturber of the Intellectual Peace"; The Social Scientist as Stranger; Theory & History: Economics & the Dilemma of Value Theory; Marx, Veblen & the " Riddle" of Alienation; Reification, Animism, Emulation: The Cultural Hegemony of Capitalism; Veblen, Weber, & the "Spirit of Capitalism"; Inside the Whale: The Barbarian Status of Women; The Tribes of Academe; America & the World; Disciplines & Dissenters: Veblen's Legacy in American Thought & Social Action; Conclusion: Whither Capitalism?

Keywords: American Economists, Thorstein Veblen, Sociology, Biography, Economics, Sociologists, Sociology, History, United States