Scholars attempting to place Veblen in a particular intellectual tradition will only succeed in reaping frustration and confusion until it is recognized that he was primarily ^Isui generis^R and eclectic. This is the recurring theme that is made explicit in the introduction, conclusion, and some of the chapters of this work. Veblen was a thinker of such depth and power that he was able to create his own intellectual paradigm. The result of his endeavors is that more than a few intellectuals including his followers, the institutional economists, have spent their careers trying to understand the paradigm and to develop it in several directions for their own purposes.
ISBN: | 9780313299469 |
Publication date: | 13th September 1996 |
Author: | Rick Tilman |
Publisher: | Praeger Publishers Inc an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 280 pages |
Series: | Contributions in Economics and Economic History |
Genres: |
Economic theory and philosophy |