Cargando…
Thorstein Veblen and his European contemporaries, 1880-1940 : a study of comparative sociologies /
This is the first systematic analysis of the intellectual and cultural relationship between Thorstein Veblen's sympathetic view of Marxism and ideological affinities with Italian Marxist-Leninist Communists and his Marxist European contemporaries.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Lewiston, N.Y. :
Edwin Mellen Press,
©2011.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Title Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Abstract; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Notes; Chapter 1
- The Legacy of Thorstein Veblen; Prologue; The Legacy of Veblen; Veblen's Dualisms; Veblen on Consumption; Veblen's Critique of Neoclassicism; Veblen As Economic Historian and Growth Theorist; Veblen and the Future of Industrial Society; Veblen's Critics: Right, Left and Center; World War I and Its Aftermath; The Postwar Era; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 2
- Vilfredo Pareto, Gaetano Mosca, Robert Michels and Franco-Italian Elitism; Introduction
- Life on the Fringes: Biography of Vilfredo ParetoNon-Rational Society; Utopia and Society; Enter Gaetano Mosca and Robert Michels; Veblen, Classical Elitism and the Modern State; The Lower Levels of Power; Notes; Chapter 3
- The Dialectic of Collectivism and Individualism: John Hobson and Herbert Spencer; Introduction; Herbert Spencer and Hobson; Spencer's Long-Term Opposition to State-Supported Education; Propaganda, Jingoism, and Public Education; Political Bias and Interpretation; Veblen and Herbert Spencer; Epilogue; Notes
- Chapter 4
- John Neville and John Maynard Keynes: Examplars of British LiberalismIntroduction; Keynes and the Monarchy; Neville Keynes and Religion; Keynes and Work; An Ethic of Self-Sufficiency and Waste Avoidance; Family and the Keynes Household; Veblen, Maynard Keynes and the Economic Consequences of Peace; The Keynes, Veblen and the Higher Learning; Keynesian Economics and the Economics of Veblen; Veblen, Keynes and the Positive State; J.M. Keynes' and Veblen's Attack on Laissez-Faire; Notes; Chapter 5
- Werner Sombart, The Great War, and the Periodization of History; Introduction
- Spirit and InstinctEconomic Epochs; Summation; Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism; Veblen's Criticisms of Sombart; Veblen's Case Against the German Intellectuals; Veblen's Critique of the German Intellectuals; Veblen's Prophecies Regarding Fascism; Notes; Chapter 6
- Georg Simmel and the Sociology of Consumption; Introduction; Objectification and Rationalization of Culture by Money; The Role of Fashion in Status Emulation; Fashion as a Class Phenomenon; The Refinement of Veblenian and Simmelian Microeconomics
- Conclusion: Simmel's Depoliticization Versus Veblen's Politicization of Fashion
- NotesChapter 7
- Ferdinand Tönnies on Karl Marx and the Erosion of Community; Introduction; Biography and Similarities of Intellectual Influence; Veblen's Theory and Stages of Social Development; Tönnies on Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft; Marx-Engels and the Classless Society; Re-Enter Marx Through Revisionist Marxism; Social Stasis, Institutional Consummation and the End of History; Tönnies and Veblen on Marx's View of History; The Role of the Entrepreneur and Manager; Utopian, Messianic, and Chiliastic Aspects of Marxism; The State of Marx Scholarship