The Engineers and the Price System
Cosimo Classics | 2006-09-01 | ISBN: 1596058927 | 124 pages | PDF | 17 MB
One of the great thinkers of the early 20th century, American economist and sociologist THORSTEIN BUNDE VEBLEN (1857-1929) is best remembered for coining the phrase "conspicuous consumption." But he also, in this 1921 volume, foresaw the rise of the scientist and the technologist as an economic power.
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