Thorstein Veblen : economics for an age of crises /: economics for an age of crises. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Erik S. Reinert and Francesca Lidia Viano.
• Other Names: Reinert, Erik S, 1949-; Viano, Francesca Lidia, 1973-
• 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.
• Publisher Details: London New York : Anthem Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 380 pages), illustrations, map
• Subjects: 330.092; Economists -- United States -- Biography; Economics -- United States -- History; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History; Economics; Economists; United States; Electronic books; Biography; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857289223; 0857289225
• Related ISBNs: 9781843318583; 184331858X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; Note: Print version record.
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