edited by Erik S. Reinert and Francesca Lidia Viano
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xii, 380 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations, map ;
Dimensions
24 cm
SERIES
Series Title
The Anthem Other Canon series
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
CONTENTS NOTE
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1. Introduction / Erik S. Reinert and Francesca Lidia Viano -- 2. Veblen's contexts: Valdres, Norway and Europe; filiations of economics; and economics for an age of crises / Erik S. Reinert -- Part One: Norwegian Origins and Personal Life. 3. Explaining Veblen by his Norwegian background: a sketch / Kåre Lunden -- 4. Valdres to the Upper Midwest: the Norwegian background of the Veblen family and their migration to the United States / Terje Mikael Hasle Joranger -- 5. New perspectives on Thorstein Veblen, the Norwegian / Knut Odner -- 6. The physical world of Thorstein Veblen: Washington Island and other intimate spaces / Russell H. Bartley and Sylvia Erickson Bartley -- Part Two: American Education. 7. Ithaca transfer: Veblen and the historical profession / Francesca Lidia Viano -- 8. Schooling for heterodoxy: on the foundations of Thorstein Veblen's institutional economics / Charles Camic -- Part Three: Veblen's Politics. 9. Thorstein Veblen and the politics of predatory power / Sidney Plotkin -- 10. Veblen, war and peace / Stephen Edgell -- 11. Veblen's 'higher learning': the scientist as Sisyphus in the iron cage of a University / Eyüp Özveren -- Part Four: Veblen's Economics. 12. Thorstein Veblen: the father of evolutionary and institutional economics / Geoffrey M. Hodgson -- 13. Veblen's words weighed / Paul Burkander -- 14. The great crash of 2007 viewed through the perspective of Veblen's Theory of Business Enterprise, Keyne's monetary theory of production and Minsky's financial instability hypothesis / L. Randall Wray -- 15. Predation from veblen until now: remarks to the Veblen sesquicentennial conference / James K. Galbraith -- 16. Capitalising expectations: Veblen on consumption, crises and the utility of waste / Sophus A. Reinert and Francesca Lidia Viano -- 17. Thorstein Veblen: still misunderstood, but more important now than ever / Robert H. Frank