The Engineers and the Price System

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The Engineers and the Price System
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Author Thorstein Veblen
LanguageEnglish
Subject Economics, Political economy
Published1921
Publisher B. W. Huebsch
Publication place United States

The Engineers and the Price System, by Thorstein Veblen, is a compilation of a series of papers originally published in The Dial in 1921, [1] each of which mainly analyzes and criticizes the price system, planned obsolescence, and artificial scarcity. [2] The final chapter outlined a plan for a "soviet of technicians". [3] The book, along with other works of Veblen, became influential in the formation of the technocracy movement in the 1930s. [4] [5]

References

  1. ↑ Edgell, Stephen (2015). Veblen in Perspective. Routledge. p. 27. ISBN   9781563241161.
  2. ↑ Veblen, Thorstein (1921). The Engineers and the Price System (PDF). New York: B. W. Huebsch. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
  3. ↑ Akin, William (1977). Technocracy and the American Dream . University of California Press. p.  24. ISBN   9780520031104. Engineers and the Price System Veblen.
  4. ↑ Stabile, Donald R. (1986). "Veblen and the Political Economy of the Engineer: The Radical Thinker and Engineering Leaders Came to Technocratic Ideas at the Same Time". American Journal of Economics and Sociology. 45 (1): 43–44. doi:10.1111/j.1536-7150.1986.tb01899.x.
  5. ↑ Knoedler, Janet; Mayhew, Anne (1999). "Thorstein Veblen and the Engineers: A Reinterpretation". History of Political Economy. 31 (2): 255–272. doi:10.1215/00182702-31-2-255.
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