WRITINGS OF THORSTEIN VEBLEN.

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War Essays
• "The Opportunity of Japan", Journal of Race Development, July 1915, pp. 23-38.
• "The Japanese Lose Hope for Germany", letter to The New Republic, June 30, 1917, pp. 246-247.
• "On the General Principles of a Policy of Reconstruction", Journal of the National Institute of Social Sciences, April 1918, pp. 37-46;
  republished [in part] as "A Policy of Reconstruction", The New Republic, April 13, 1918, pp. 318-320.
• "The Passing of National Frontiers", The Dial Magazine (N.Y.), April 25, 1918, pp. 387-390.
• "Menial Servants during the Period of the War", The Public, Vol. 21, May 11, 1918, pp. 595-599.
• "Farm Labor and the Country Towns", (memorandum for Statistical Division of Food Administration, 1918), published as: "Farm Labour for the Period of the War", The Public, July 13, 1918, pp. 882-885; July 20, 1918, pp. 918-922; July 27, 1918, pp. 947-952; Aug., 3, 1918, pp. 981-985.
• "Farm Labor and the I.W.W.", (memorandum written 1918 for the Food Adminstration), JPE, Vol. 40, (Dec., 1932).
• "The War and Higher Learning", The Dial Magazine, (Chicago and New York), Vol. LXV, July 18, 1918, pp. 45-49.
• "The Modern Point of View and the New Order", The Dial Magazine, Oct., 19, 1918, pp. 289-293; Oct., 22, 1918, pp. 349-354; Nov., 16, 1918, pp. 409-414; Nov., 30, 1918, pp. 482-488; Dec., 14, 1918, pp. 543-549; Dec., 28, 1918, pp. 605-611; Jan., 11, 1919, pp. 19-24; Jan., 25, 1919, pp. 75-82. Republished as [296 KB] "The Vested Interests and the State of the Industrial Arts (1919); 1920 Title changed to "The Vested Interests and the Common Man."
• "Bolshevism is a Menace - to Whom?", The Dial Magazine, Vol. LXVI, Feb. 22, 1919, pp. 174-179.
• "On the Nature and Uses of Sabotage", The Dial Magazine, April 5, 1919, pp. 341-346.
• "Bolshevism is a Menace to the Vested Interests", editorial, The Dial Magazine, April 5, 1919, pp. 360-361.
• "Sabotage", editorial, The Dial Magazine, April 5, 1919, p. 363.
• "Congressional Sabotage", editorial, The Dial Magazine, April 5,1919, p. 363.
• "Immanuel Kant on Perpetual Peace", editorial, The Dial Magazine, May 3, 1919, p. 469.
• "Peace", The Dial Magazine, Vol. LXVI, May 17, 1919, p. 485-487.
• "Panem et Circenses", editorial, The Dial Magazine, June 14, 1919, p. 609.
• "'Open Covenants Openly Arrived At' and the Elder Statesmen", editorial, The Dial Magazine, July 12, 1919, pp. 25-26.
• "A World Safe for the Vested Interests", editorial, The Dial Magazine, July 12, 1919, p. 26.
• "The Red Terror - At Last It Has Come to America", editorial, The Dial Magazine, Sept. 6, 1919, p. 205.
• "The Red Terror and the Vested Interests", editorial, The Dial Magazine, Sept. 6, 1919, p. 206.
• "Bolshevism and the Vested Interests in America", The Dial Magazine, Oct. 4, 1919, pp. 296-301 ['On the Danger of a Revolutionary Overturn']; Oct. 18, 1919, pp. 339-346 ['On the Circumstances Which Make for a Change']; Nov. 1, 1919, pp. 373-380 ['A Memorandum on a Practical Soviet of Technicians'].
• "The Twilight Peace of the Armistice", editorial, The Dial Magazine, Nov. 15, 1919, p. 443.
• "Review of J. M. Keynes's Economic Consequences of the Peace, PSQ, Vol. 35, (1920), pp. 467-472.
• "Between Bolshevism and War", The Freeman, May 25, 1921, pp. 238-251.
• "Dementia Praecox", The Freeman, June 21, 1922, pp. 344-347.

Memoranda, Suggestions.
• "As to a Proposed Inquiry into Baltic and Cretan Antiquities, memorandum (1910), AJS, (Sep., 1933), pp. 237-241.
• "Suggestions Touching the Working Program of an Inquiry into the Prospective Terms of Peace" (memorandum, 1917), PSQ, (Jun., 1932), pp. 186-189.
• "Wire Barrage". A memorandum on an practicable method of fighting submarines (written, c. 1917; first (?) published in 1964 in: "Essays in our changing order", (New York, N.Y.: Augustus M. Kelley, 1964, pp.471-474.)
• "An Outline of a Policy for the Control of the 'Economic Penetration' of Backward Countries and of Foreign Investments, (memorandum 1917), PSQ, (Jun., 1932), pp. 189-203.
• "Using the I.W.W. to Harvest Grain", (memorandum for Statistical Division of Food Administration, 1918), JPE, Vol 40, (Dec., 1932), pp. 796-807.
• A Schedule of Prices for the Staple Foodstuffs", (memorandum for Statistical Division of Food Administration, 1918), Southwestern Social Science Quarterly, Vol. 13, (Mar.,1933), pp. 372-377.
• "Report ad interim to Raymond Pearl on trip through prairie states in behalf of statistical division of Food Administration" (1918), AER, (Sep., 1933), pp. 478-479.