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This eBook edition of “The Theory of Business Enterprise” has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Theory of Business Enterprise is a political economy book that looks at the growing corporate domination of culture and the economy. At its heart The Theory of Business Enterprise is an analysis of two intertwined but clashing motivations; that of business and that of industry. Business is the making of profits. Industry is the making of goods. “The captains of industry” curtailed production in order to keep prices and profits high. The worst fears of businessmen was a “free run of production” which would essentially collapse all profits. In this book, which was published in 1904 during the height of American concern with the growth of business combinations and trusts, Veblen employed his evolutionary analysis to explain these new forms. He saw them as a consequence of the growth of industrial processes in a context of small business firms that had evolved earlier to organize craft production. Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929) was an American economist and sociologist. He is well known as a witty critic of capitalism. Veblen is fa

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Author

Thorstein Veblen

Language

EN

Category

business

Subjects

Business

Rating

4.5 / 5 (79 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14