WRITINGS OF THORSTEIN VEBLEN.

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Essays in Economics

• [J. S.] "Mill's Theory of the Taxation of Land" (Johns Hopkins, 1882; - unprinted. Lost? Abstract in J.H.U., University Circulars, Feb., 1892, p. 176)
• "The Distribution of Surplus Revenue in 1837" (John Addison Porter Prize essay of 1884, Yale - unprinted. Lost?)
• "Some Neglected Points in the Theory of Socialism", Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS), Nov. 1891, pp. 345-362.
• "Böhm-Bawerk's Definition of Capital and the Source of Wages", Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE), Jan. 1892, pp. 247-252.
• "The Overproduction Fallacy", QJE, July 1892, pp. 484-492.
• "The Price of Wheat since 1867", Journal of Political Economy (JPE), Vol. 1, No. 1. (Dec., 1892), pp. 68-103; appendix pp. 156-161. [Text in html, using graphics!]
• "Adolph Wagner's New Treatise", JPE, Vol. 1, No. 1. (Dec., 1892), pp. 110-117.
• "The Food Supply and the Price of Wheat", JPE, Vol. 1, No. 3. (Jun., 1893), pp. 365-379.
• "The Army of the Commonweal", JPE, Vol. 2, No. 3. (Jun., 1894), pp. 456-461.
• "The Economic Theory of Woman's Dress", Popular Science Monthly, Nov. 1894, pp. 198-205.
• "Why is Economics Not an Evolutionary Science?", QJE, Vol. 12, No. 4. (Jul., 1898), pp. 373-397.
• "The Instinct of Workmanship and the Irksomeness of Labor", AJS, Vol. 4, No. 2. (Sep., 1898), pp. 187-201.
• "The Beginnings of Ownership", American Journal of Sociology (AJS), Vol. 4, No. 3. (Nov., 1898), pp. 352-365.
• "The Barbarian Status of Women", AJS, Vol. 4, No. 4. (Jan., 1899), pp. 503-514.
• "Mr. Cummings's Strictures on "The Theory of the Leisure Class".
  (Review to: John Cummings. The Theory of the Leisure Class JPE, 1899); JPE, Vol. 8, No. 1. (Dec., 1899), pp. 106-117.)
• [182 KB] "The Preconceptions of Economic Science", Part I-III, QJE, Part I. Vol. 13 No. 2. (Jan., 1899), pp. 121-150; Part II. Vol. 13 No. 4. (Jul., 1899), pp. 396-426; Part III. Vol. 14 No. 2. (Feb., 1900), pp. 240-269.
• "Industrial and Pecuniary Employments", Publications of the American Economic Association, (AEA), Vol. 2, No. 1 (Feb., 1901), pp. 190-235.
• "The Later Railway Combinations", JPE, Vol. 9, No. 1. (Jun., 1901), pp. 439-441.
• "Levasseur on Hand and Machine Labor", JPE, Vol. 9, No. 1. (Jun., 1901), pp. 441-442
• "Gustav Schmoller's Economics", QJE, Vol. 16, No. 1. (Nov., 1901), pp. 69-73.
• "The use of loan credit in modern business". Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1903, 22 p.
  from: Decennial publications of the University of Chicago. First series (Chicago, Ill.), vol. 4, p.31-50.
  (Republished without substantial change in The Theory of Business Enterprise).
• "An Early Experiment in Trusts", JPE, Vol. 12, No. 2. (Mar., 1904), pp. 270-279.
• "Credit and Prices", JPE, Vol. 13, No. 3. (Jun., 1905), pp. 460-472.
• "The Place of Science in Modern Civilization" AJS, Vol. 11, No. 5. (Mar., 1906), pp. 585-609.
• "The Socialist Economics of Karl Marx and His Followers", Part 1 and 2; QJE, I. Aug. 1906, 20 (4), 575-595; II. Feb. 1907, 21 (2), 299-322.
• "Professor Clark's Economics", QJE, Vol. 22, No. 2. (Feb., 1908), pp. 147-195.
• "Fisher's Capital and Income", Political Science Quarterly, (PSQ), Vol. 23, No. 1, (Mar., 1908), 112-128.
• [119 KB] "On the Nature of Capital", QJE, Vol. 22, No. 4. (Aug., 1908), pp. 517-542; Vol. 23 No. 1 (Nov. 1908), pp. 104-136.
• "Fisher's Rate of Interest", PSQ, Vol. 24, No. 2. (Jun., 1909), pp. 296-303.
• "The Limitations of Marginal Utility", JPE, Vol. 17, (Nov. 1909), pp. 620-636.
• "The Industrial System and the Captains of Industry", The Dial, May 31, 1919, pp. 552-557.
• "The Captains of Finance and the Engineers," The Dial, June 14, 1919, pp. 599-606.
• "The Captains of Industry," The Freeman, Vol. 7, Apr., 18, 1923, pp. 128-132.
• "The Timber Lands and Oil Fields", The Freeman, May 23, 1923, pp. 248-250; May 30, 1923, pp. 272-274.
• "The Independent Farmer", The Freeman, June 13, 1923, pp. 321-324.
• "The Country Town", The Freeman, July 11, 1923, pp. 417-420; July 18, 1923, pp. 440-443.
• "Economic Theory in the Calculable Future", American Economic Review, (AER) Vol. 15, No. 1. (Mar., 1925), Supplement, pp. 48-55.