The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation, and Other Essays

Download or read book The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation, and Other Essays written by Thorstein Veblen and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following book is a collection of essays written by Thorstein Veblen. He was a Norwegian-American economist and sociologist who, during his lifetime, emerged as a well-known critic of capitalism. There are sixteen essays published in this book, some of the bearing these titles: 'The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation', 'The Preconceptions of Economic Science', 'Gustav Schmoller's Economics', 'Industrial and Pecuniary Employments', 'The Socialist Economics of Karl Marx', and 'An Early Experiment in Trusts'.