Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times.
The Case of America.
New York: B. W. Huebsch, Inc., 1923 Stock Code: 146927
First edition, first printing, of Veblen's most caustic work, concluding "that the forces of business-as-usual and of national integrity were steadily coalescing 'by night and cloud' and that the continued supremacy of business nationalism would probably lead to a renewal of the servile despotism characteristic of earlier epochs" (IESS).
Description
Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt.
Condition
Bookplate to front pastedown and ownership signature to front free endpaper of David Shakow. Light rubbing at extremities, else a fine copy, square and tight, cloth clean and unmarked.
Bibliography
IESS (1923).
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