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First Published in 2015. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

One of America's most influential social critics, Thorstein Veblen authored works deeply rooted in evolutionary biology and American philosophical naturalism. This book looks at his writings to show how evolutionary naturalism underlies his social theory and criticism, shapes his satire, and binds his work together.

This study portrays the social philosophy of Milton Friedman, James Buchanan, Friedrich Hayek, and George Stigler as the bulwark of an attack on welfare and regulatory state collectivism and as undermining majoritarian democracy, political and civil liberties, and social equality.

The influential economist and philosopher Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was one of the most original and penetrating critics of American culture and institutions, and his work attracted and still attracts the attention of scholars from a wide range of political viewpoints and scholarly disciplines. Focusing on the doctrinal and theoretical facets of Veblen's political economy, this book offers a study not only of his ideas but also of the way h...

First Published in 2015. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

Veblen was a thinker of such depth and power that he was able to create his own intellectual paradigm. The conclusions reached in many chapters of this book are that scholars attempting to categorise his work will be unable to do so, largely because he was "sui generis" and eclectic.