具體描述
The Theory of Business Enterprise is an economics (or political economy) book by Thorstein Veblen published in 1904 that looks at the growing corporate domination of culture and the economy.
At its heart The Theory of Business Enterprise is an analysis of two intertwined but clashing motivations; that of business and that of industry. Business is the making of profits. Industry (or the "machine process") is the making of goods. "The captains of industry" (capitalists or "Robber Barons") curtailed production in order to keep prices and profits high. The worst fears of businessmen was a "free run of production" which would essentially collapse all profits.
Veblen's book was published at a high point of American concern with business combinations and trusts. Veblen employed his evolutionary analysis to explain these new forms.
作者簡介
Thorstein Bunde Veblen, born Torsten Bunde Veblen (July 30, 1857 – August 3, 1929) was an American economist and sociologist, and a leader of the so-called institutional economics movement. Besides his technical work he was a popular and witty critic of capitalism, as shown by his best known book The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899).
Veblen is famous in the history of economic thought for combining a Darwinian evolutionary perspective with his new institutionalist approach to economic analysis. He combined sociology with economics in his masterpiece, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), arguing there was a basic distinction between the productiveness of "industry," run by engineers, which manufactures goods, and the parasitism of "business," which exists only to make profits for a leisure class. The chief activity of the leisure class was "conspicuous consumption", and their economic contribution is "waste," activity that contributes nothing to productivity. The American economy was therefore made inefficient and corrupt by the businessmen, though he never made that claim explicit. Veblen believed that technological advances were the driving force behind cultural change, but, unlike many contemporaries, he refused to connect change with progress.
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评分上課時候教授說維布倫的理論除《有閑階級論》外很多已經被遺忘，但今天讀來仍有其魅力。今日讀此書發覺所言不虛。1904年寫下的書，很多細節在今天讀來已經比較晦澀，但大意甚有啓發。維氏認為商業企業和資本的逐利原則與工業生産的效率原則並不完全一緻，也並不完全遵循傳統的自然財産權原則，而19世紀末的管理權與所有權分離的興起導緻物質生産效率讓位於對市場價格的熱衷，金融資本侵蝕工業實體，投機逐利原則大行其道，作為管理者和投機者的企業經理同社會大眾及財産所有者的利益逐漸産生脫節，追求投機利益高於實體生産（像不像金融危機華爾街的一幕？）。維氏把整個經濟社會乃至文化視為一個完整的係統，並在某些地方運用階級分析法及經濟帝國主義的概念，有一些馬剋思主義的影子，也有後來者將他和康芒斯同歸入老派製度經濟學的類彆。
评分上課時候教授說維布倫的理論除《有閑階級論》外很多已經被遺忘，但今天讀來仍有其魅力。今日讀此書發覺所言不虛。1904年寫下的書，很多細節在今天讀來已經比較晦澀，但大意甚有啓發。維氏認為商業企業和資本的逐利原則與工業生産的效率原則並不完全一緻，也並不完全遵循傳統的自然財産權原則，而19世紀末的管理權與所有權分離的興起導緻物質生産效率讓位於對市場價格的熱衷，金融資本侵蝕工業實體，投機逐利原則大行其道，作為管理者和投機者的企業經理同社會大眾及財産所有者的利益逐漸産生脫節，追求投機利益高於實體生産（像不像金融危機華爾街的一幕？）。維氏把整個經濟社會乃至文化視為一個完整的係統，並在某些地方運用階級分析法及經濟帝國主義的概念，有一些馬剋思主義的影子，也有後來者將他和康芒斯同歸入老派製度經濟學的類彆。
评分上課時候教授說維布倫的理論除《有閑階級論》外很多已經被遺忘，但今天讀來仍有其魅力。今日讀此書發覺所言不虛。1904年寫下的書，很多細節在今天讀來已經比較晦澀，但大意甚有啓發。維氏認為商業企業和資本的逐利原則與工業生産的效率原則並不完全一緻，也並不完全遵循傳統的自然財産權原則，而19世紀末的管理權與所有權分離的興起導緻物質生産效率讓位於對市場價格的熱衷，金融資本侵蝕工業實體，投機逐利原則大行其道，作為管理者和投機者的企業經理同社會大眾及財産所有者的利益逐漸産生脫節，追求投機利益高於實體生産（像不像金融危機華爾街的一幕？）。維氏把整個經濟社會乃至文化視為一個完整的係統，並在某些地方運用階級分析法及經濟帝國主義的概念，有一些馬剋思主義的影子，也有後來者將他和康芒斯同歸入老派製度經濟學的類彆。
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