Thorstein Veblen (eBook, PDF)

Economics for an Age of Crises
Redaktion: Reinert, Erik S.; Viano, Francesca L.

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Produktbeschreibung

After his death Thorstein Veblen was hailed as 'America's Darwin and Marx' and is normally portrayed as the perennial iconoclast. He severely criticised traditional economics and attempted to create an alternative approach based on a much more complex view of human beings. He is one of the most celebrated economists of our age and has been the inspiration for many books; the predatory version of capitalism we now again experience, the phenomenon of studying cultures of consumption and the darker sides of gilded ages can be traced back to Veblen.

A conference in Veblen's ancestral Norway marked the 150th anniversary of his birth. The aim of the conference was to consolidate Veblen scholarship and evaluate his relevance for the problems of today. This collection offers the results of that endeavour; it is a milestone of Vebleniana which assesses all the most salient aspects of his life and influence. Many of its contributors also push into uncharted territory, examining the man and his work from new and necessary perspectives hitherto ignored by scholarship.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857289223
• Artikelnr.: 44472205

Autorenporträt

Edited by Erik S. Reinert and Francesca L. Viano

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; 1. Introduction - Erik S. Reinert
and Francesca Lidia Viano; 2. Veblen's Contexts: Valdres, Norway and
Europe; Filiations of Economics; and Economics for an Age of Crises - Erik
S. Reinert; PART ONE: NORWEGIAN ORIGINS AND PERSONAL LIFE: 3. Explaining
Veblen by his Norwegian Background: A Sketch - Kåre Lunden; 4. Valdres to
the Upper Midwest: The Norwegian Background of the Veblen Family and their
Migration to the United States - Terje Mikael Hasle Joranger; 5. New
Perspectives on Thorstein Veblen, the Norwegian - Knut Odner; 6. The
Physical World of Thorstein Veblen: Washington Island and Other Intimate
Spaces - Russell H. Bartley and Sylvia Erickson Bartley; PART TWO: AMERICAN
EDUCATION: 7. Ithaca Transfer: Veblen and the Historical Profession -
Francesca Lidia Viano; 8. Schooling for Heterodoxy: On the Foundations of
Thorstein Veblen's Institutional Economics - Charles Camic; PART THREE:
VEBLEN'S POLITICS: 9. Thorstein Veblen and the Politics of Predatory Power
- Sidney Plotkin; 10. Veblen, War and Peace - Stephen Edgell; 11. Veblen's
'Higher Learning': The Scientist as Sisyphus in the Iron Cage of a
University - Eyüp Özveren; PART FOUR: VEBLEN'S ECONOMICS: 12. Thorstein
Veblen: The Father of Evolutionary and Institutional Economics - Geoffrey
M. Hodgson; 13. Veblen's Words Weighed - Paul Burkander; 14. The Great
Crash of 2007 Viewed through the Perspective of Veblen's 'Theory of
Business Enterprise', Keynes's Monetary Theory of Production and Minsky's
Financial Instability Hypothesis - L. Randall Wray; 15. Predation from
Veblen until Now: Remarks to the Veblen Sesquicentennial Conference - James
K. Galbraith; 16. Capitalising Expectations: Veblen on Consumption, Crises
and the Utility of Waste - Sophus A. Reinert and Francesca Lidia Viano; 17.
Thorstein Veblen: Still Misunderstood, but More Important Now than Ever -
Robert H. Frank; Name Index; Subject Index