1964, Thorstein Veblen, BUSINESS The Portable VEBLEN Thorstein Veblen's works are bounded on both sides by the image of economic power. Veblen began his formative thinking in the 1880s, when trusts were amerging and the new "dynastic corporation" was planting itself squarely in the path of the traditional political ideals. His first published economic essay appeared in 1 892, two years after the Sherman Antitrust Act. His last writh the 1920s during the boom period of what was being called the "New Capitalism," when the monope present power. Among all the thinkers who sought to and- lyze the nature and quences of this new business imperium of the West, Veblen is easily the towering figure. The years since his death in 1929 have borne out the con. viction that Veblen is the most creative mind American social thought has produced. The best of Thorstein Veblen's social and economic thought, selected from ten of his books, is here presented. In sections headed "In Dispraise of Economists," "The Roots of Institu- tions," "The Case of America," and "On War and Peace," the editor has arranged a sweeping and incisive analysis of American life and institutions. MAX LERNER, distinguished political columnist for the New York Post and a lifelong student of Veblen, is Professor of American Civilization at Brandeis University. He is the au thor of many books, including It Is Later Than You Think, Public Journal, and America as a Civilization. 'Max Lerner has done well by Veblen and by us. His selections are excellent and ample, while his introduc- tion is informative, comprehensive, and judiciously -Saturday Review critical." THE VIKING PRESS #economics#evolutionaryscience#moderncivilisation#socialist#karlmarx#imperialgermany#industrialrevolution#patriotism#dynasty