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Title:

Thorstein Veblen : economics for an age of crises / edited by Erik S. Reinert and Francesca Lidia Viano.

Publisher:

Anthem Press,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xii, 380 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Veblen, Thorstein,--1857-1929.
Economists--United States--Biography.
Economics--United States--History.

Other Authors:

Reinert, Erik S., 1949-
Viano, Francesca Lidia, 1973-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents:

1. Introduction / Erik S. Reinert and Francesca Lidia Viano -- 2. Veblen's contexts: Valdres, Norway and Europe; filiations of economics; and economics for an age of crises / Erik S. Reinert -- Part One: Norwegian Origins and Personal Life. 3. Explaining Veblen by his Norwegian background: a sketch / Kåre Lunden -- 4. Valdres to the Upper Midwest: the Norwegian background of the Veblen family and their migration to the United States / Terje Mikael Hasle Joranger -- 5. New perspectives on Thorstein Veblen, the Norwegian / Knut Odner -- 6. The physical world of Thorstein Veblen: Washington Island and other intimate spaces / Russell H. Bartley and Sylvia Erickson Bartley -- Part Two: American Education. 7. Ithaca transfer: Veblen and the historical profession / Francesca Lidia Viano -- 8. Schooling for heterodoxy: on the foundations of Thorstein Veblen's institutional economics / Charles Camic -- Part Three: Veblen's Politics. 9. Thorstein Veblen and the politics of predatory power / Sidney Plotkin -- 10. Veblen, war and peace / Stephen Edgell -- 11. Veblen's 'higher learning': the scientist as Sisyphus in the iron cage of a University / Eyüp Özveren -- Part Four: Veblen's Economics. 12. Thorstein Veblen: the father of evolutionary and institutional economics / Geoffrey M. Hodgson -- 13. Veblen's words weighed / Paul Burkander -- 14. The great crash of 2007 viewed through the perspective of Veblen's Theory of Business Enterprise, Keyne's monetary theory of production and Minsky's financial instability hypothesis / L. Randall Wray -- 15. Predation from veblen until now: remarks to the Veblen sesquicentennial conference / James K. Galbraith -- 16. Capitalising expectations: Veblen on consumption, crises and the utility of waste / Sophus A. Reinert and Francesca Lidia Viano -- 17. Thorstein Veblen: still misunderstood, but more important now than ever / Robert H. Frank.

Series:

The Anthem Other Canon series.

ISBN:

184331858X (hbk. : alk. paper)
9781843318583 (hbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)809456939

LCCN:

2012036082

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)