Absentee Ownership.

VEBLEN (Thorstein).

Publication Date: 1924

About this Item

First UK edition. Small 8vo. [8], 445, [3] pp. Original red cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, dust jacket (partial offsetting to endpapers, light spotting to edges not extending to text, contents otherwise unmarked; jacket worn with a few tiny nicks and short closed tears to extremities, two unobtrusive tape reinforcements to verso, spine panel heavily toned, withal a very good example of rare dust jacket). London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd. One of Veblen's final works, originally published in America in the previous year, in which he targeted 'the predation and waste of the corporate capitalist order. Writing in a more polemical style than before, Veblen endorsed the dispossession of absentee owners and business-minded executives from the American corporation' (Rick Tilman, 'Thorstein Veblen' in A Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists, p. 699). Veblen concluded '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).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Absentee Ownership.
• Publication Date: 1924
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included