Business & Economics Collection: Thorstein Veblen Edition (30+ Works in One Volume) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning in America, On the Nature of Capital…By Thorstein Veblen
Length91h 35m
About this audiobook
This expansive Business & Economics Collection gathers more than thirty works by Thorstein Veblen, offering a comprehensive view of his penetrating critique of modern capitalism, consumption, industry, education, and social hierarchy. Written in a style at once satirical, analytical, and densely theoretical, these essays and books stand at the intersection of economics, sociology, and cultural criticism. Veblen's concepts—most famously "conspicuous consumption," the leisure class, and the conflict between business enterprise and industrial workmanship—situate the volume within the Progressive Era's challenge to orthodox economic thought. Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929), a Norwegian-American economist and social theorist, wrote from the margins of academic respectability yet profoundly reshaped modern social science. His outsider's perspective, rigorous training, and skepticism toward inherited institutions enabled him to expose the ceremonial habits, status anxieties, and predatory values embedded in capitalist society. His work reflects both the transformations of industrial America and a lifelong resistance to conventional pieties. This collection is recommended for readers seeking a foundational, provocative account of capitalism's cultural logic. Scholars, students, and intellectually curious readers will find in Veblen an incisive guide to the enduring entanglement of wealth, prestige, technology, and power.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreBusiness and Economics
Length91 hrs 35 mins
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Publish dateDec 15, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Progress and Poverty, Volumes I and II (Annotated)
2Business & Economics Collection: Thorstein Veblen Edition (30+ Works in One Volume)
3Books:
4THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS
5Chapter 1. Introductory
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6Chapter 2. Pecuniary Emulation
7Chapter 3. Conspicuous Leisure
8Chapter 4. Conspicuous Consumption
9Chapter 5. The Pecuniary Standard of Living
10Chapter 6. Pecuniary Canons of Taste
11Chapter 7. Dress as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture
12Chapter 8. Industrial Exemption and Conservatism
13Chapter 9. The Conservation of Archaic Traits
14Chapter 10. Modern Survivals of Prowess
15Chapter 11. The Belief in Luck
16Chapter 12. Devout Observances
17Chapter 13. Survivals of the Non-Invidious Interests
18Chapter 13. The Higher Learning as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture
19THE THEORY OF BUSINESS ENTERPRISE
20Preface
21Introductory
22The Machine Process
23Business Enterprise
24Business Principles
25Value of Loan Credit
26Modern Business Capital
27Theory of Modern Welfare
28Business Principles in Law and Politics
29Cultural Incidence of Machine Process
30Decay of Business Enterprise
31THE INSTINCT OF WORKMANSHIP AND THE STATE OF THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS
32Preface
33Chapter I. Introductory
34Chapter II. Contamination of Instincts in Primitive Technology
35Chapter III. The Savage State of the Industrial Arts
36Chapter IV. The Technology of the Predatory Culture
37I. Peaceable Ownership
38II. The Competitive System
39Chapter VI. The Era of Handicraft
40Chapter VII. The Machine Industry (pt. 1)
41Chapter VII. The Machine Industry (pt. 2)
42IMPERIAL GERMANY AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
43Preface
44Chapter I. Introductory
45I
46II. On the Merits of Borrowing
47III. The Pagan Anarchy
48Chapter III. The Dynastic State
49Chapter IV. The Case of England
50Chapter V. Imperial Germany
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