"The Anthem Companion to Thorstein Veblen" offers a collection of original essays by leading scholars in the field of Veblen studies. Contributions span a wide range of Veblen's concerns, with a special emphasis on Veblen's significance for contemporary debates about epistemology, social evolution, values, higher education, capitalist development and politics.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Thorstein Veblen's Elusive Mind; Part I: Method, Philosophy and Values; 1. The Instinct of Workmanship and Other Philosophical Concepts in Thorstein Veblen's Methodology; 2. Reconsidering Thorstein Veblen's Use of Instincts; 3. Roman Catholic Critics of Thorstein Veblen and Institutional Economists; 4. The Metaphysical World of Thorstein Veblen: Of and Beyond the Here and Now; 5. Veblen's Position on Education Analyzed and Reformulated; Part II: Capitalism, Social Structure and Politics; 6. Re-Igniting the Anthropology of Capitalism: Returning to Veblen, after postmodernism, after postcoloniality; 7. On the Social Origin of the Leisure Class in Turkey: For a Veblenian Turn in the Marxian Research Program of Turkish Studies; 8. Veblen's Localism and its Ambiguities; 9. Learning from Veblen's Masterless Man for Grassroots Democratic Change; Index.
