Author: Thorstein Veblen
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: interests, vested
Number of Pages: 194
Published: 2009-06-04
List price: $22.75
ISBN-10: 1110630263
ISBN-13: 9781110630264
Veblen’s classic position on social status is intertwined with his interest in economic class and the political prospects of that class. The Vested Interests is squarely in that tradition. It aims to show how and why a discrepancy has arisen between the accepted principles of law and custom that underlie the business enterprise and the efficient management of industry. He also speculates on the civil and political difficulties inspired by this discrepancy between business civilization. and the social order. Many of the essays in this collection originally appeared in Dial from October 19
Author: Paul R. Kahane
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Keywords: interests, vested
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2004-08-20
List price: $21.09
ISBN-10: 1412025699
ISBN-13: 9781412025690
Our Vested Interests
Author: Thorstein Veblen
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: interests, vested
Number of Pages: 194
Published: 2009-06-04
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 1110630271
ISBN-13: 9781110630271
Author: Thorstein Veblen
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: man, common, interests, vested
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2005-05-15
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1596051493
ISBN-13: 9781596051492
IN THE VESTED INTERESTS AND THE COMMON MAN, long considered a classic text of economics, Veblen discusses various financial transformations within the historical unfolding of capitalism and examines the value of free enterprise in general. It emphasizes the automation and the loss of direct human relations within the industrial arts as well as social repercussions of capitalistic industry.
Author: Jack H. Bloom
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: vested, power, exemplar, symbolic, rabbi
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2002-09-25
List price: $50.50
ISBN-10: 0789018667
ISBN-13: 9780789018663
The solution to the growing problem of stress and burnout in rabbis!Written by a practicing clinical psychologist who spent 10 years as a congregational rabbi, The Rabbi As Symbolic Exemplar: By the Power Vested in Me presents positive solutions to the inevitable negative effects of symbolic exemplarhood, coaching rabbis through dilemmas of the inner soul. Being a rabbi means serving as a Symbolic Exemplar of the best that is in humankind, being experienced and treated and expected to act as a stand-in for God, and a walking, talking symbol of all that Jewish tradition represents. The burd
Author: Deborah Baker Wyrick
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Keywords: word, vested, swift, jonathan
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 1988-05
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0807817805
ISBN-13: 9780807817803
Author: Marjorie Garber
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: cultural, anxiety, dressing, cross, interests, vested
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 1997-11-25
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0415919517
ISBN-13: 9780415919517
Beginning with the bold claim, "There can be no culture without the transvestite," Marjorie Garber explores the nature and significance of cross-dressing and of the West’s recurring fascination with it. Vested Interests is a tour de force of cultural criticism: its investigations range across history, literature, film, photography, and popular and mass culture, from Shakespeare to Mark Twain, from Oscar Wilde to Peter Pan, from transsexual surgery and transvestite "sororities" to Madonna, Flip Wilson, Rudolph Valentino and Elvis Presley. What, Garber asks, does clothing have t
