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Veblen, Thorstein B. Theory of business enterprise. [**]$1.50. Scribner.
“The work deals rather with the methods of modern financiering and the quest of profit rather than with the other less prominent commercial data. If we have to choose between the ten chapters of which the volume consists, we should particularly recommend the last five as appealing more generally to the unbiased reader.... The first five seem rather to lead up to the others, and to be an attempt at more technical and erudite writing. Much is new of what the author says about crises.... The ‘Theory of modern welfare,’ ... the significance for the business world at large of the advance in workingmen’s wages, ... and the theory of wasteful expenditure” are fully treated. “The excellent remarks (pp. 319, 320) about business thinking, and the equally keen observation about the absence of thrift among the modern industrial workmen and its causes (pp. 325-27) are among the most timely in the book.... The points of interest are many, and it is to be regretted that we cannot here call attention to all of them.”—J. Pol. Econ.
“The book lacks the desirable quality of terseness and the writer at times wanders from the main line of his subject. A commendable feature is the formulation of many of his statements in symbols of mathematics, which are not incorporated into the text, but in foot-notes.” John C. Duncan.