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VEBLEN, Thorstein. The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts.New York : 1914
First edition, first printing. "As in other work by Veblen, an extensive anthropological-historical background provides the underpinning for his argument. The theme was not a new one for him, but he developed it more fully than in earlier works. Humans, he declared, have a basic instinct to create things of usefulness to themselves and others. That... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 145940
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VEBLEN, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class.New York : 1899
First edition of the Norwegian-American professor's first published book, his most successful work. Veblen's thesis was a serious economic analysis of contemporary America, but after William Dean Howells gave the book a rave review as a social satire, it became a best-seller. "Into it he poured all the acidulous ideas and fantastic terminology that... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 143903
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VEBLEN, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class.New York : 1899
First edition of the Norwegian-American professor's first published book, his most successful work. Veblen's thesis was a serious economic analysis of contemporary America, but after William Dean Howells gave the book a rave review as a social satire, it became a best-seller. "Into it he poured all the acidulous ideas and fantastic terminology that... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 129325
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VEBLEN, Thorstein. Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times. The Case of America.New York : 1923
First edition of Veblen's most caustic work, a discussion of the need for advertising and salesmanship in modern business, with a sly dig at Christianity, where he describes Propaganda of the Faith as"quite the largest, oldest, most magnificent, most unabashed, and most lucrative enterprise in sales-publicity in all Christendom" (p. 319). This copy... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 88082
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VEBLEN, Thorstein. Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times. The Case of America.New York : 1923
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Isaac A. Hourwich and days of auld lang syne. Thorstein Veblen." Hourwich (1860-1924) was a Lithuanian scholar, activist and Debsian socialist who participated in various radical Socialist movements in Russia and Belarus before emigrating to the U.S. in 1890 to... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 113346
