| + — | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 612. My. ‘05. 250w. |
“Professor Veblen has a preternaturally vivid insight into the pathological side of business and society: and he follows remorselessly the poisoned tract which his critical scalpel has discovered. And yet, despite the fact that the author’s attitude renders the highest approval of either the scientific or the ethical standpoint impossible, the book is an uncommonly suggestive one. The penetrating glance into certain broad and seamy aspects of our industrial life prompts to a reflective testing of one’s social beliefs and ideals.” Winthrop More Daniels.
| + + | Atlan. 95: 558. Ap. ‘05. 990w. |
“Professor Veblen, except in his satiric moods, tends to an oracular and often to a tortuous mode of expression. By reason of its many evidences of keen and profound thought, of a high grade of scholarship and of a breadth and sureness of vision, the book is notable among recent contributions to economics; and tho its usual style is difficult, it is yet penetrated by flashes of inimitable satiric wit that is delightful.”
| + + — | Ind. 58: 727. Mr. 30, ‘05. 570w. |
“Our objection to this work ... is ... the constant use of terms which to the lay mind seem unnecessarily studied and anachronistic. The excellent qualities of scholarly reasoning and scientific demonstration which characterize this book, besides the author’s wide acquaintance with the existing economic literature....” A. M. Wergeland.
| + + — | J. Pol. Econ. 13: 115. D. ‘04. 930w. |
“Such a theory as is here set forth may impress the readers of sensational magazines: but it is a travesty of economics and an unjust aspersion of our business morality.”
| — — | Nation. 81: 37. Jl. 13, ‘05. 2280w. |
Reviewed by Frank Haigh Dixon.