{"product_id":"veblen-charles-camic-9780674659728","title":"Veblen: The Making of an Economist Who Unmade Economics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCo-Winner of the 2022 Theory Prize, American Sociological Association\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold new biography of the thinker who demolished accepted economic theories in order to expose how people of economic and social privilege plunder their wealth from society's productive men and women.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThorstein Veblen was one of America's most penetrating analysts of modern capitalist society. But he was not, as is widely assumed, an outsider to the social world he acidly described. \u003ci\u003eVeblen\u003c\/i\u003e overturns the long-accepted view that Veblen's ideas, including his insights about conspicuous consumption and the leisure class, derived from his position as a social outsider. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the hinterlands of America's Midwest, Veblen's schooling coincided with the late nineteenth-century revolution in higher education that occurred under the patronage of the titans of the new industrial age. The resulting educational opportunities carried Veblen from local Carleton College to centers of scholarship at Johns Hopkins, Yale, Cornell, and the University of Chicago, where he studied with leading philosophers, historians, and economists. Afterward, he joined the nation's academic elite as a professional economist, producing his seminal books \u003ci\u003eThe Theory of the Leisure Class\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Theory of Business Enterprise\u003c\/i\u003e. Until late in his career, Veblen was, Charles Camic argues, the consummate academic insider, engaged in debates about wealth distribution raging in the field of economics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eVeblen\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how Veblen's education and subsequent involvement in those debates gave rise to his original ideas about the social institutions that enable wealthy Americans--a swarm of economically unproductive \"parasites\"--to amass vast fortunes on the backs of productive men and women. Today, when great wealth inequalities again command national attention, Camic helps us understand the historical roots and continuing reach of Veblen's searing analysis of this \"sclerosis of the American soul.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles Camic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674659724\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674659728\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 504\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.30w x 1.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/28\/2020","brand":"Charles Camic","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44046178222335,"sku":"9780674659728","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_51beee2e-1943-4b1b-b3ba-b7bce26e49f2.jpg?v=1684983086","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/veblen-charles-camic-9780674659728","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}