The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation, and Other Essays
Title: The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation, and Other Essays
Author: Thorstein Veblen
Release date: June 8, 2012 [eBook #39949]
Language: English
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THE PLACE OF SCIENCE
IN MODERN CIVILISATION
BOOKS BY THORSTEIN VEBLEN
| THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS THE THEORY OF BUSINESS ENTERPRISE THE INSTINCT OF WORKMANSHIP IMPERIAL GERMANY AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION THE NATURE OF PEACE AND THE TERMS OF ITS PERPETUATION THE HIGHER LEARNING IN AMERICA THE VESTED INTERESTS AND THE STATE OF THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS THE PLACE OF SCIENCE IN MODERN CIVILISATION |
THE PLACE OF SCIENCE
IN
MODERN CIVILISATION
AND OTHER ESSAYS
by
THORSTEIN VEBLEN
New York
B. W. HUEBSCH
Mcmxix
COPYRIGHT, 1919
BY B. W. HUEBSCH
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
PUBLISHER'S NOTE
These essays are here reprinted from various periodicals, running over a period of about twenty years. The selection is due to Messrs. Leon Ardzrooni, Wesley C. Mitchell and Walter W. Stewart.
It is unlikely that more than a few public libraries possess files so complete as to give access to all of these essays, and even if the magazines were readily obtainable at libraries they would almost certainly have to be read in those institutions. The nature of the material, its timeliness (Mr. Veblen deals with ideas in such a manner as to give the date of composition a secondary importance), and the fact that it would otherwise be lost to all save diligent excavators, explain its preservation in this form.
The courtesy of the periodicals in which the papers first appeared, in permitting their reproduction, is gratefully acknowledged.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation | 1 |
| The Evolution of the Scientific Point of View | 32 |
| Why Is Economics Not an Evolutionary Science? | 56 |
| The Preconceptions of Economic Science. I. | 82 |
| The Preconceptions of Economic Science. II. | 114 |
| The Preconceptions of Economic Science. III. | 148 |
| Professor Clark's Economics | 180 |
| The Limitations of Marginal Utility | 231 |
| Gustav Schmoller's Economics | 252 |
| Industrial and Pecuniary Employments | 279 |
| On the Nature of Capital. I. | 324 |
| On the Nature of Capital. II. | 352 |
| Some Neglected Points in the Theory of Socialism | 387 |
| The Socialist Economics of Karl Marx. I. | 409 |
| The Socialist Economics of Karl Marx. II. | 431 |
| The Mutation Theory and the Blond Race | 457 |
| The Blond Race and the Aryan Culture | 477 |
| An Early Experiment in Trusts | 497 |