Wither Business Ideology: Revisiting Veblen's Theory of Engineers as Revolutionary Actors

Each major work of Veblen is a theoretical step taken further towards the solution of the problem already posed in The Theory of the Leisure Class: the continuity of the habit of invidious comparison that renders humans self-centric agents. Veblen, by juxtaposing “engineers” to the pecuniary class,...

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Business
Comparative analysis
Consumer behaviour
Economic theory
Economic thought
Economists
Engineers
Ideologies
Ideology
Institutionalism
Legitimacy
Leisure
Social classes
Studies
Veblen, Thorstein Bunde
Veblen, Thorstein Bunde (1857-1929)
Wealth
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