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Description of Absentee Ownership

Absentee ownership is an inquiry into the economic situation as it has taken shape in the twentieth century, particularly as exemplified in the case of America. According to Thorstien Veblen, absentee ownership is the main and immediate controlling interest in the life of civilised men. It is the paramount issue between the civilised nations, and guides the conduct of their affairs at home and abroad. World War I, says Veblen, arose out of a conflict of absentee interests and the peace was negotiated with a view to stabilize them.

Part I of the book is occupied with a summary description of that range of economic growth and change that led up through the nineteenth century and came to a head in the twentieth century.

Part II is an objective, theoretical analysis of those economic circumstances described in the first part of the book.

Title Information

ISBN:

9781560009221

Pages:

472 pages

Format:

Paperback

Product Code:

9482

Publisher:

Transaction Publishing (US)

Published:

30/11/1996

Edition:

New edition

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Contents of Absentee Ownership

Preface

Part I

1. Introductory

2. The Growth and Value of National Integrity

3. Law and Custom in Recent Times

4. The Era of Free Competition

5. The Rise of Corporation

6. The Captain of Industry

7. The Case of America


Part II

8. The New Order of Business

9. The industrial System of the New Order

10. The Technology of Physics and Chemistry

11. Manufactures and Salesmanship

12. The Larger Use of Credit

13. The Secular Trend