Thorstein Veblen: Theorist of the Leisure Class

Author:   John Patrick Diggins
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Edition:   Revised edition
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9780691006550


Pages:   310
Publication Date:   10 June 1999
Replaced By:   9780691006543
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   John Patrick Diggins
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
Edition:   Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 19.70cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9780691006550


ISBN 10:   0691006555
Pages:   310
Publication Date:   10 June 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Replaced By:   9780691006543
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

Language:   English

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John Diggins ... is exceedingly perceptive in focusing on the role attributed by Veblen to status emulation in the legitimation and reinforcement of power and the hegemony of established institutions and systems.


John Diggins ... is exceedingly perceptive in focusing on the role attributed by Veblen to status emulation in the legitimation and reinforcement of power and the hegemony of established institutions and systems. --Warren J. Samuels, Social Science Quarterly


John Diggins ... is exceedingly perceptive in focusing on the role attributed by Veblen to status emulation in the legitimation and reinforcement of power and the hegemony of established institutions and systems. ---Warren J. Samuels, Social Science Quarterly For an understanding of Veblen pivotal importance attaches to Diggins's ... observation that `Veblen was perhaps the only American social scientist of the nineteenth century who was intellectually prepared to challenge the economic theories of Karl Marx on their own terms.' ---John Walton, Social Science Quarterly A most important, incisive, and readable study of Thorstein Veblen. -John Kenneth Galbraith


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John Patrick Diggins is Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His previous books include Mussolini and Fascism: The View from America, The American Left in the Twentieth Century, Up from Communism: Conservative Odysseys in American Intellectual History, and The Liberal Persuasion: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and the Challenge of the American Past (Princeton).

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