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WRITINGS AND INTERNET RESOURCES.
WRITINGS OF THORSTEIN VEBLEN.
Downloadable texts (plain text files) are underlined; file-size in brackets.
Books, Translations
1884-1922 (no longer under U.S. copyright laws!) |
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The ethical grounds of a doctrine of retribution. Philosophical Dissertation. (Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 1884, - unprinted; probably lost). |
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[2.705 KB - PDF / 1.685 KB - TXT] (Translator) Gustav Cohn: The Science of Finance. (PDF) - Translated by T.B. Veblen. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press 1895 (= Economic studies of the University of Chicago. 1.), xi, 800 p. [Note: Book 3, "German tax legislation of the present time," is omitted from the translation]. Original: System der Nationaloekonomie: System der Finanzwirtschaft. Ein Lesebuch für Studirende. Stuttgart: F. Enke, 1889 (= System der Nationalökonomie. 2. - vol. 2 of 3). |
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[648 KB] The Theory of the Leisure Class. An economic study in the evolution of institutions. (New York, N.Y./London: Macmillan/Macmillan, Feb. 1899, viii, 400 p.). Subtitle changed in 1912 by Veblen to: An economic study of institutions. |
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[132 KB] (Translator) Science and the workingmen: An argument in his own defense before the Criminal court of Berlin on the charge of having publicly incited the unpropertied classes to hatred and contempt of the propertied classes / by Ferdinand Lassalle. [first published: Zürich: Meyer & Zeller, 1863, 55 p.]. A translation of [German Version: 126 KB] " Die Wissenschaft und die Arbeiter. [Eine Vertheidigungsrede vor dem Berliner Criminalgericht gegen die Anklage die besitzlosen Klassen zum Haß und zur Verachtung gegen die Besitzenden öffentlich angereizt zu haben."] By Thorstein Veblen, The University of Chicago. (New York: The International Library Publishing Co., 1900, 84 p.) |
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[611 KB] The Theory of Business Enterprise. (New York, N.Y.: Scribner's, Sept., 1904, vii, 400 p.) |
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[632 KB] The Instinct of Workmanship, and the State of the Industrial Arts. (New York, N.Y.: Macmillan, March 1914, ix, 355 p.) |
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[619 KB] Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution. (New York, N.Y., London: Macmillan/Macmillan, June 1915, viii, 314 p.) |
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[661 KB] An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of its Perpetuation, (New York, N.Y./London: Macmillan/Macmillan, April 1917, xiii, 367 p.). Later edited as: The Nature of Peace (New York, N.Y.: B.W. Huebsch, Jan. 1919, 367 pp.) |
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[539 KB] The Higher Learning In America: A Memorandum On the Conduct of Universities By Business Men, (New York, N.Y.: Huebsch, 1918, viii, 286 p.) |
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The Place of Science in Modern
Civilization and other essays, (New York, N.Y.: Huebsch, 1919, 509 p.). Later edited as: "Veblen on Marx, race, science, and economics." |
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[213 KB] The Engineers and the Price System. (New York, N.Y.: B.W. Huebsch, 1921, 169 p.) |
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[296 KB] "The vested interests and the state of the industrial arts" ("The modern point of view and the new order").
(New York, N.Y.: Huebsch 1919, 183 p.) |
1923-1934 (actually U.S. copyright protected. Sorry, no [complete] download possible !) |
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[847 KB] Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times. The case of America. (New York, N.Y.: B.W. Huebsch, 1923, 445 p.) - Warning: US. copyright renewed 1951/02/26 (by Becky Meyers/Ann B. Sims). |
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(Editor and Translator:) The Laxdæla saga; translated from the Icelandic, with an introduction by Thorstein Veblen. (New York, N.Y.: B.W. Huebsch, 1925, xv, 302 p.) - Warning: US. copyright renewed 1953/03/06 (by Becky Meyers/Ann B. Sims). Public Domain text of the Saga, translated into English (not by Veblen!), at SunSITE.Berkeley.EDU. The Laxdæla Saga (in Old Norse!) |
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Essays in our changing order. (Edited by Leon Ardzrooni. New York, N.Y.: Viking Press 1934, xviii, 472 p.) - You can find all essays, published before 1923/01/01, at the corresponding sites! |