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Author : Thorstein Veblen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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Author : Thorstein Veblen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351289144
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book The Higher Learning in America written by Thorstein Veblen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-23 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One test of a classic work of social criticism is to see if the critique's central logic and arguments remain generally applicable beyond the critic's own time. One work that has lost little of its polemical power or social relevance is Thorstein Veblen's The Higher Learning in America. First published hi 1918, this volume sharply attacked the ascendency of business values and concerns in America's universities. In Veblen's critical analysis, the institutions of higher learning have taken on the aspects of corporations and trusts, relegating the pursuit of knowledge to secondary status. Today when the mission of higher education is uncertain and universities compete for endowments and students, this volume is as timely as ever. Veblen was not only America's most famous economist and social critic but a distinguished academic as well, having taught at major universities and the New School for Social Research. His critique is built around an essential distinction between higher learning and career or vocational training. Emphasizing the primacy of learning over training, he repudiates the practice of appointing unqualified businessmen as governing trustees and condemns college administration conceived along corporate guidelines. The entrepreneurial spirit, in this instance, understands learning as marketable knowledge and measures academic prestige hi terms of needlessly elaborate building projects and material equipment. Veblen's alternative vision severs the pursuit of knowledge and free inquiry from the institutional restrictions of economic interest. Undergraduate colleges and professional schools are to be detached from the university, while self-governance among professors and students replaces boards of trustees and presidents. Veblen's view of learning was tied to a larger conception of civilization hi which an "idly curious" elite built and elaborated upon bodies of knowledge that sustained the practical institutions of society. Ivar Berg's brilliant and stimulating introduction to this new editon offers a critical reading of Veblen's work in its own context and applies its arguments to controversies currently surrounding the American university. The Higher Learning in America continues to be of interest to educators, intellectual historians, economists, and sociologists.
Author : Thorstein Veblen
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781293195178
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book The Higher Learning in America written by Thorstein Veblen and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ The Higher Learning In America: A Memorandum On The Conduct Of Universities By Business Men; Volume 6 Of The Higher Learning In America: A Memorandum Of The Conduct Of Universities By Business Men; Thorstein Veblen Thorstein Veblen B. W. Huebsch, 1918 Education; Higher; Education / Higher; Education, Higher; Universities and colleges
Author : Thorstein Veblen
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421416786
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Higher Learning in America: The Annotated Edition written by Thorstein Veblen and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-06 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Veblen's insights into the American university system at the outset of the twentieth century are as provocative today as they were when first published. Insisting that institutions of higher learning should be dedicated solely to the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, he urged American universities to abandon commitments to extraneous pursuits such as athletics, community service, and vocational education. He also believed that the corporate model of governance--with university boards of trustees dominated by well-to-do businessmen and university presidents who functioned essentially as businessmen in academic dress--mandated unsavory techniques of salesmanship and self-promotion that threatened to reduce institutions of higher learning to the status of competitive business enterprises."--Publisher's Web site.
Author : Thorstein Veblen
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330305096
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Higher Learning in America written by Thorstein Veblen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Higher Learning in America: A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men It is something more than a dozen years since the following observations on American academic life were first assembled in written form. In the meantime changes of one kind and another have occurred, although not such as to alter the course of policy which has guided American universities. Lines of policy which were once considered to be tentative and provisional have since then passed into settled usage. This altered and more stable state of the subject matter has permitted a revision to avoid detailed documentation of matters that have become commonplace, with some resulting economy of space and argument. But, unhappily, revision and abridgment carries its own penalties, in the way of a more fragmentary presentation and a more repetitious conduct of the argument; so that it becomes necessary to bespeak a degree of indulgence on that ground. Unhappily, this is not all that seems necessary to plead in extenuation of recurrent infirmities. Circumstances, chiefly of a personal incidence, have repeatedly delayed publication beyond what the run of events at large would have indicated as a propitious date; and the same circumstances have also enjoined a severer and more repressive curtailment in the available data. It may not be out of place, therefore, to indicate in the most summary fashion what has been the nature of these fortuitous hindrances. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Thorstein Veblen
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ISBN 13 : 9781351289160
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (891 download)
Download or read book The Higher Learning in America written by Thorstein Veblen and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One test of a classic work of social criticism is to see if the critique's central logic and arguments remain generally applicable beyond the critic's own time. One work that has lost little of its polemical power or social relevance is Thorstein Veblen's The Higher Learning in America. First published hi 1918, this volume sharply attacked the ascendency of business values and concerns in America's universities. In Veblen's critical analysis, the institutions of higher learning have taken on the aspects of corporations and trusts, relegating the pursuit of knowledge to secondary status. Today when the mission of higher education is uncertain and universities compete for endowments and students, this volume is as timely as ever.Veblen was not only America's most famous economist and social critic but a distinguished academic as well, having taught at major universities and the New School for Social Research. His critique is built around an essential distinction between higher learning and career or vocational training. Emphasizing the primacy of learning over training, he repudiates the practice of appointing unqualified businessmen as governing trustees and condemns college administration conceived along corporate guidelines. The entrepreneurial spirit, in this instance, understands learning as marketable knowledge and measures academic prestige hi terms of needlessly elaborate building projects and material equipment.Veblen's alternative vision severs the pursuit of knowledge and free inquiry from the institutional restrictions of economic interest. Undergraduate colleges and professional schools are to be detached from the university, while self-governance among professors and students replaces boards of trustees and presidents.Veblen's view of learning was tied to a larger conception of civilization hi which an "idly curious" elite built and elaborated upon bodies of knowledge that sustained the practical institutions of society. Ivar Berg's brilliant and stimulating introduction to this new editon offers a critical reading of Veblen's work in its own context and applies its arguments to controversies currently surrounding the American university. The Higher Learning in America continues to be of interest to educators, intellectual historians, economists, and sociologists."--Provided by publisher.
Author : Thorstein Veblen
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1602067473
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Higher Learning in America written by Thorstein Veblen and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the time of its initial publication in 1904, The Higher Learning in America was known in educated circles as the most reflective study ever made of the university system in America. Veblen's evaluation of the misleading notions and erroneous beliefs were inherent in "the higher learning" was received as fair by most academics. As a result, many believed he paved the way to an improved age in college education. Just as applicable today as they were decades ago, his sophisticated style remains deprecatingly amusing; his biting critique just as disquieting as it was at the turn of the 19th century. The Higher Learning in America remains a penetrating book by one of America's greatest social critics. American economist and sociologist THORSTEIN BUNDE VEBLEN (1857-1929) was educated at Carleton College, Johns Hopkins University and Yale University. He coined the phrase "conspicuous consumption." Among his most famous works are The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), The Theory of Business Enterprise (1904), and Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution (1915).
Author : Thorstein Veblen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Higher Learning in America written by Thorstein Veblen and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thorstein 1857-1929 Veblen
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781362997221
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (972 download)
Download or read book HIGHER LEARNING IN AMER written by Thorstein 1857-1929 Veblen and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Robert Maynard Hutchins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351481517
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book The Higher Learning in America written by Robert Maynard Hutchins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the pivotal book in the reform of higher education in the United States, Robert M. Hutchins' classic is once again available, with a brilliant personal and professional appreciation by Harry S. Ashmore. When it was published in 1936The Higher Learning in Americabrought into focus the root causes of the controversies that still beset the nation's educational system. Taking office in 1929 as president of the University of Chicago, Hutchins began his tenure by declaring the learning available in even the most prestigious universities grossly deficient.He cited himself as case in point. At Yale he had graduated at the top of his college class and set a record in the law school that led to appointment as professor and, at 26, promotion to dean. But he had acquired only "some knowledge of the Bible, of Shakespeare, andFaust,of one dialogue of Plato, and of the opinions of many semi-literate and a few literate judges, and that was about all."The curricular reforms and administrative reorganization he undertook at Chicago are set forth in this volume, along with the philosophical arguments he worked out to explicate and defend his views. His goal was to reestablish the liberal arts and humanities as the basis for undergraduate education, consigning specialization and research to graduate and professional schools. Hutchins envisioned the university as a community of scholars who, in addition to teaching and research, provided independent thought and criticism of a society being rapidly transformed by science and technology. Challenging the educational establishment at every pertinent level, he became the most celebrated and most controversial intellectual of his era.After twenty-two years at Chicago, Hutchins became associate director of the newly enriched Ford Foundation, where he was primarily responsible for the bold reforms sponsored by its Fund for the Advancement of Education and Fund for Adult Education. In 1960 he est
Author : THORSTEIN. VEBLEN
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ISBN 13 : 9781033272503
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (725 download)
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Author : Thorstein Veblen
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Total Pages : 186 pages
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Author : Thorstein Veblen
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781341649844
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (498 download)
Download or read book The Higher Learning in America a Memorandum on the Conduct of Universityes by Business Men written by Thorstein Veblen and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Thorstein Veblen
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781378952085
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Higher Learning in America a Memorandum on the Conduct of Universityes by Business Men written by Thorstein Veblen and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Veblen Thorstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780259617518
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (175 download)
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Author : Robert Maynard Hutchins
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412837189
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)
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Author : Thorstein Bunde Veblen
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Total Pages : 209 pages
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Download or read book The Higher Learning in America. A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men, Etc written by Thorstein Bunde Veblen and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
