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The Theory of Business Enterprise
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A foundational economics text analyzing business enterprise, industry, finance, and modern capitalism.
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The Theory of Business Enterprise
The Theory of Business Enterprise develops Thorstein Veblen’s institutional analysis of business motives, industrial production, credit, competition, and sabotage. This original English edition is a public-domain economics classic for readers interested in capitalism, business history, industrial society, and the evolution of economic institutions.
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Thorstein Veblen died in 1929, and The Theory of Business Enterprise was first published in 1904; these dates support the public-domain basis for this original English edition.
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- 01Full text
- 02THE THEORY OF BUSINESS ENTERPRISE
- 03CHAPTER I
- 04INTRODUCTORY
- 05CHAPTER II
- 06THE MACHINE PROCESS
- 07part dispensed with, with the result that there is a saving of
- 08part of the customers.(24*) So that the element of competitive
- 09NOTES:
- 10256.
- 11NOTES:
- 12NOTES:
- 13IV.
- 14chapter.(5*) "Good-will" is a somewhat extensible term, and
- 15chapter on loan credit,(14*) the aggregate nominal capital in
- 16NOTES:
- 17part of older investments has brought the speculative inflation
- 18chapter, and such economies bring relief through enabling the
- 19NOTES:
- 20VIII.
- 21part derived, is no longer in full accord with the natural-rights
- 22NOTES:
- 23III.
- 24VII.
- 25NOTES:
- 26CHAPTER X
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