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Title: The Theory of Business Enterprise by Thorstein Veblen ISBN: 0-87855-699-0 Publisher: Transaction Publishers Pub. Date: 01 June, 1978 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Econ Class Review
Comment: JMJ IHM
Thorstein Veblen gives a very detailed, logical account of the business enterprise as he saw it in the 1900's. He places an emphasis on the individual buisness man, the powers he holds and what he can accomplish with those powers, as well as his effect on the economic and social community as a whole. He looks at the world community as it enters into the industrial age, dominated by what he calls the "machine process." He places intense importance on the subject of machines and how they relate to business enterprise. His Theory is very well-written and comprehensive, linking all aspects of his thought together in an organized, essay-like book.
Rating: 4
Summary: A hop, skip, and a jump from hell.
Comment: I have an old hardcover copy of this book, copyright 1904, reprinted in 1936, when times had been hard and weren't getting much better. The Preface had proclaimed a unique point of view: "the aims, motives, and means that condition current business traffic. This choice of a point of view is itself given by the current economic situation, in that the situation plainly is primarily a business situation." (p. v). Later on, considering the nature of technological society, Veblen adopts a view of thinking that is very much like the thoughts of Karl Marx on people who try to survive by having a job in such a system. "His place is to take thought of the machine and its work in terms given him by the process that is going forward. His thinking in the premises is reduced to standard units of gauge and grade. If he fails of the precise measure, by more or less, the exigencies of the process check the aberration and drive home the absolute need of conformity." (p. 308). This is not particularly appealing to anyone who has had the misfortune to see the results of such thinking in military pacification procedures, strategic bombing campaigns, politics, philosophy, psychology, religion, and the practice of law as a professional occupation. People who cannot see a connection here never read anything like this book.
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Title: The Theory of the Leisure Class (Dover Thrift Editions) by Thorstein Veblen ISBN: 0486280624 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $3.00 |
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Title: Portable Veblen by Veblen ISBN: 0140150366 Publisher: Penguin USA (P) Pub. Date: 01 June, 1993 List Price(USD): $10.01 |
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Title: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (Penguin Classics) by Karl Marx, Ben Fowkes ISBN: 0140445684 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1992 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy by William Greider ISBN: 0684862190 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Absentee Ownership: Business Enterprise in Recent Times : The Case of America by Thorstein Veblen, Marion J., Jr. Levy ISBN: 1560009225 Publisher: Transaction Publishers Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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