1st Edition

The Engineers and the Price System

Edited By Thorstein Veblen Copyright 1982
158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

151 Pages
by Routledge

In his The Engineers and the Price System, originally published in 1921, Veblen observes that World War One demanded industrial innovations, and he was among the first to predict the need for changes in managerial struc-ture. Veblen saw that industrial output was more dependent upon techno-crats—managers and capital innova-tors—than financiers. In The Engineers and the Price System, Veblen... Read more
I: On the Nature and Uses of Sabotage; II: The Industrial System and the Captains of Industry; III: The Captains of Finance and the Engineers; IV: On the Danger of a Revolutionary Overturn; V: On the Circumstances Which Make for a Change; VI: A Memorandum on a Practicable Soviet of Technicians

Biography

Thorstein Veblen