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Thorstein Veblen : Victorian firebrand

Title
Thorstein Veblen : Victorian firebrand / Elizabeth and Henry Jorgensen.
Author
Jorgensen, Elizabeth Watkins.
Publication
Armonk, NY : M. E. Sharpe, 1999.

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Jorgensen, Henry Irvin.
Description
viii, 280 pages; 24 cm
Summary
  • During his thirty-year career early in this century, economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) tweaked the sensibilities of his time with unrelenting criticism of American business culture. He also attacked other sacred American institutions: religion, sports and games, the traditional views of the role of women, the class system, the credit system, and certain aspects of academic life.
  • His ideas on society, however, were often dismissed because of his reputation as an eccentric and a womanizer. In this new biography, the Jorgensens present Veblen as a sensitive, brilliant, passionate, and sometimes foolishly chivalric man. They culled material primarily from letters written by Veblen, his relatives, and colleagues. The result is an entirely new appraisal of an increasingly influential but often misunderstood twentieth-century intellectual.
Subject
  • Veblen, Thorstein, 1857-1929
  • Economists > United States > Biography
  • Social reformers > United States > Biography
  • Economics > United States > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-272) and index.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. University of Chicago Beginnings -- 3. The Immigrants -- 4. Carleton -- 5. Tampering with the Sacrament -- 6. Student Relations -- 7. Miss Hardy -- 8. "The Wind on the Heath" -- 9. "The Wind on the Heath Has Fallen Dead" -- 10. Chicago, 1896-1899 -- 11. A Book to Be Read for Amusement? -- 12. Triggs and Mrs. Triggs -- 13. Out of Chicago -- 14. The Corner of Indecision -- 15. Stanford -- 16. Where the Rolling Foothills Rise -- 17. A Dossier of Positive Statements -- 18. His Last Few Days of Honor and Competence -- 19. The Station to Nowhere -- 20. Miss Havisham Takes the Stand -- 21. Happily Ever After -- 22. World War I Ends -- 23. A Land Where Even the Old Are Fair? -- 24. "I Will Arise and Go Now" -- 25. After All.
ISBN
076560258X (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
98020416
OCLC
  • 39108610
  • ocm39108610
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries