{"title":"Charles Camic","description":"\u003cp\u003eCharles Camic offers insightful explorations into sociology and the history of social thought, presenting complex ideas with clarity and scholarly precision. His work often delves into the lives and legacies of influential figures, such as Thorstein Veblen, illuminating their contributions to education and society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders of Camic will find thoughtful analyses that bridge historical context with contemporary relevance, making his books valuable resources for those engaged in education and social sciences. His writing invites reflection on how ideas shape institutions and cultural understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"veblen-by-charles-camic-9780674659728","title":"Veblen","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA bold new biography of the thinker who demolished accepted economic theories in order to expose how people of economic and social privilege plunder their wealth from society's productive men and women.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThorstein Veblen was one of America's most penetrating analysts of modern capitalist society. However, he was not, as is widely assumed, an outsider to the social world he acidly described. \u003cem\u003eVeblen\u003c\/em\u003e overturns the long-accepted view that Veblen's ideas, including his insights about conspicuous consumption and the leisure class, derived from his position as a social outsider.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the hinterlands of America's Midwest, Veblen's schooling coincided with the late nineteenth-century revolution in higher education that occurred under the patronage of the titans of the new industrial age. The resulting educational opportunities carried Veblen from local Carleton College to centres of scholarship at Johns Hopkins, Yale, Cornell, and the University of Chicago, where he studied with leading philosophers, historians, and economists. Afterward, he joined the nation's academic elite as a professional economist, producing his seminal books \u003cem\u003eThe Theory of the Leisure Class\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Theory of Business Enterprise\u003c\/em\u003e. Until late in his career, Veblen was, Charles Camic argues, the consummate academic insider, engaged in debates about wealth distribution raging in the field of economics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVeblen\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates how Veblen's education and subsequent involvement in those debates gave rise to his original ideas about the social institutions that enable wealthy Americans—a swarm of economically unproductive \"parasites\"—to amass vast fortunes on the backs of productive men and women. Today, when great wealth inequalities again command national attention, Camic helps us understand the historical roots and continuing reach of Veblen's searing analysis of this \"sclerosis of the American soul\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47433255977196,"sku":"9780674659728","price":85.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780674659728.jpg?v=1774765339"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/charles-camic.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}