Wither business ideology: revisiting Veblen's theory of engineers as revolutionary actorsÖncü, Ahmet (2009) Wither business ideology: revisiting Veblen's theory of engineers as revolutionary actors. Review of Radical Political Economics, 41 (2). pp. 196-215. ISSN 0486-6134 (Print) 1552-8502 (Online) This is the latest version of this item. Full text not available from this repository. Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0486613409331431 AbstractEach major work of Veblen is a theoretical step taken further towards the solution of the problem already posed in The Theory of the Leisure Class: the continuity of the habit of invidious comparison that renders humans self-centric agents. Veblen, by juxtaposing “engineers” to the pecuniary class, sought to illustrate a contingency for the negation of invidious comparison, which may eradicate the legitimacy of business ideology and its reckless and futile end of accumulation of personal wealth.
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