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Conspicuous Consumption by Thorstein Veblen
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened,... -
The Engineers and the Price System by Thorstein Veblen
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63In his The Engineers and the Price System, originally published in 1921, Veblen observes that World War One demanded industrial innovations, and he was among the first to predict the need for changes... -
The Higher Learning in America by Thorstein Veblen 9781602067479
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The Preconceptions of Economic Science by Thorstein Veblen 9789811801686
Booksplease Price: £10.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789811801686Author Thorstein VeblenFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint
The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen 9780199552580
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99'Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.' In The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen sets out 'to discuss the place and value of...
The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen 9781604594096
Booksplease Price: £11.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604594096Author Thorstein VeblenFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint
The Place of Science in Modern Civilization by Thorstein Veblen
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.48On its original publication in 1919, The Place of Science in Modern Civilization was recognized as a major contribution, and today Veblen continues to command attention and respect. This volume...
The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen 9780486280622
RRP: £6.49Booksplease Price: £4.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486280622Author Robert Bruce LindsayFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Im
The Theory Of The Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen 9781419185090
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £25.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419185090Author Thorstein VeblenFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint
Why is Economics not an Evolutionary Science by Thorstein Veblen 9781473324336
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The Political Ideas of Thorstein Veblen by Sidney Plotkin 9780300159998
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Thorstein Veblen and the American Way of Life by Louis Patsouras 9781551642284
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551642284Author Louis PatsourasFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint
The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts by Thorstein Veblen 9788027332540
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £9.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027332540Author Thorstein VeblenFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint
The Intellectual Legacy of Thorstein Veblen: Unresolved Issues by Rick Tilman 9780313299469
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An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of its Perpetuation by Thorstein Veblen 9781473316188
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An Inquiry Into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation by Thorstein Veblen 9781438573366
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The Collected Short Works of Thorstein Veblen: Volume III by Thornstein Veblen 9781622732166
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The Theory of the Leisure Class (Essential Economics Series: Celebrated Economists) by Thorstein Veblen 9781473324329
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Fisher's Capital and Income (Essential Economics Series: Celebrated Economists) by Thorstein Veblen 9781473324138
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Absentee Ownership and Its Discontents: Critical Essays on the Legacy of Thorstein Veblen by Michael Hudson 9783981484274
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An American Cakewalk: Ten Syncopators of the Modern World by Zeese Papanikolas 9780804791991
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47The profound economic and social changes in the post-Civil War United States created new challenges to a nation founded on Enlightenment and transcendental values, religious certainties, and rural...
The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of American Institutions and a Social Critique of Conspicuous Consumption: Based on Theories of Charles Darwin, Marx, Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer by Thorstein Veblen 9788027332526
RRP: £9.90Booksplease Price: £9.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027332526Author Thorstein VeblenFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint
The Modern Corporation and American Political Thought: Law, Power, and Ideology by Scott R. Bowman 9780271014739
Booksplease Price: £44.33Despite all that has been written about business and its role in American life, contemporary theories about the modern corporation as a social and political institution have failed to explain...
The Business of America: The Cultural Production of a Post-War Nation by Graham Thompson 9780745318080
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.30The Business of America examines the complex linking of business and nationhood in post-war United States literature against the backdrop of changing concepts of the nation in the field of American...
Capital, Class & Technology in Contemporary American Culture: Projecting Post-Fordism by Nick Heffernan 9780745311043
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.05In the tradition of Mike Davis and Fredric Jameson, Nick Heffernan engages in a series of meditations on capital, class and technology in contemporary America. He turns to the stories we generate...
The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Small-Town America by Robert Wuthnow 9780691191669
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.70How a fraying social fabric is fueling the outrage of rural AmericansWhat is fueling rural America's outrage toward the federal government? Why did rural Americans vote overwhelmingly for Donald...
A Perilous Progress: Economists and Public Purpose in Twentieth-Century America by Michael A. Bernstein 9780691119670
Booksplease Price: £51.83The economics profession in twentieth-century America began as a humble quest to understand the "wealth of nations." It grew into a profession of immense public prestige--and now suffers a strangely...
Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence by Rachel Sherman 9780691191904
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23A surprising and revealing look at how today's elite view their wealth and place in societyFrom TV's "real housewives" to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture portrays the wealthy as...
Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit by Ashley Mears
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.67A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of "models and bottles" to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of...
Economic Sociology: A Systematic Inquiry by Alejandro Portes 9780691142234
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35The sociological study of economic activity has witnessed a significant resurgence. Recent texts have chronicled economic sociology's nineteenth-century origins while pointing to the importance of...
Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events by Robert J. Shiller
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.32From Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a groundbreaking account of how stories help drive economic events-and why financial panics can spread like...
Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film - Updated Edition by Carol J. Clover 9780691166292
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.57From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s. Investigating the...
Economics Evolving: A History of Economic Thought by Agnar Sandmo
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.51In clear, nontechnical language, this introductory textbook describes the history of economic thought, focusing on the development of economic theory from Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations to the late...
The Theory of the Leisure Class by Robert Lekachman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95This classic of economic thought is a scathing critique of American snobbery and wastefulness. Chief among the practices that Veblen so wittily satirizes is "conspicuous consumption", a pattern of...
Max Lerner: Pilgrim in the Promised Land by Sanford Lakoff 9780226468310
Booksplease Price: £30.73Max Lerner was a gifted writer and educator whose passion for life made him anything but an ivory tower recluse. In public he was a prominent commentator and college professor, in private, a romantic...
CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY by Edith Wharton 9781551116730
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £15.16Ruthless and predatory, Edith Wharton's seductive young heroine Undine Spragg exploits a series of husbands from the American west to New York and France in her search for one with the ideal...
Consumption by Hudson
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.55Consumption used to be a disease. Now it is the dominant manner in which most people meet their most basic needs and - if they can afford the price - their wildest desires. In this new book, Ian and...
Consumption Ian Hudson 9781509535385
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.48Consumption used to be a disease. Now it is the dominant manner in which most people meet their most basic needs and - if they can afford the price - their wildest desires. In this new book, Ian and...
Education: Assumptions versus History: Collected Papers by Thomas Sowell 9780817981129
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.68In the papers collected in Education: Assumptions versus History, Dr. Thomas Sowell takes a hard look at the state of education in our schools and universities. His imperative is to test the...
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 9780393624540
Booksplease Price: £12.99This Norton Critical Edition includes: * The 1905 book edition of the novel, complete with A. B. Wenzell's eight original illustrations. * A preface and explanatory footnotes by Elizabeth Ammons. *...