The Engineers and the Price System
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| Author | Thorstein Veblen |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Economics, Political economy |
| Published | 1921 |
| Publisher | B. W. Huebsch |
| Publication place | United States |
The Engineers and the Price System, by Thorstein Veblen, is a compilation of a series of papers originally published in The Dial in 1921,[1] each of which mainly analyzes and criticizes the price system, planned obsolescence, and artificial scarcity.[2] The final chapter outlined a plan for a "soviet of technicians", which he emphasized was very far from being politically possible at the time.[3] The book, along with other works of Veblen, became influential in the formation of the technocracy movement in the 1930s.[4][5]
