Contents

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-x

List of Contributors

pp xi-xii

1 - Introduction

pp 1-16

2 - Veblen's Contexts: Valdres, Norway and Europe; Filiations of Economics; and Economics for an Age of Crises

pp 17-50

Part One - Norwegian Origins and Personal Life

pp 51-52

3 - Explaining Veblen by his Norwegian Background: A Sketch

pp 53-66

4 - Valdres to the Upper Midwest: The Norwegian Background of the Veblen Family and their Migration to the United States

pp 67-88

5 - New Perspectives on Thorstein Veblen, the Norwegian

pp 89-98

6 - The Physical World of Thorstein Veblen: Washington Island and Other Intimate Spaces

pp 99-130

Part Two - American Education

pp 131-132

7 - Ithaca Transfer: Veblen and the Historical Profession

pp 133-172

8 - Schooling for Heterodoxy: On the Foundations of Thorstein Veblen's Institutional Economics

pp 173-202

Part Three - Veblen's Politics

pp 203-204

9 - Thorstein Veblen and the Politics of Predatory Power

pp 205-238

10 - Veblen, War and Peace

pp 239-256

11 - Veblen's ‘Higher Learning': The Scientist as Sisyphus in the Iron Cage of a University

pp 257-280

Part Four - Veblen's Economics

pp 281-282

12 - Thorstein Veblen: The Father of Evolutionary and Institutional Economics

pp 283-296

13 - Veblen's Words Weighed

pp 297-302

14 - The Great Crash of 2007 Viewed through the Perspective of Veblen's Theory of Business Enterprise, Keynes's Monetary Theory of Production and Minsky's Financial Instability Hypothesis

pp 303-316

15 - Predation from Veblen until Now: Remarks to the Veblen Sesquicentennial Conference

pp 317-328

16 - Capitalising Expectations: Veblen on Consumption, Crises and the Utility of Waste

pp 329-352

17 - Thorstein Veblen: Still Misunderstood, but More Important Now than Ever

pp 353-360

Name Index

pp 361-366

Subject Index

pp 367-380