The Engineers and the Price System

Veblen, Thorstein. The Engineers And [sic] the Price System. NYC: B. W. Huebsch, 1921. Kitchener, Ontario: Batoche Books, 2001. As of February 2025 Kitchener version available on line here.[1]

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The Engineers and the Price System, by Thorstein Veblen, is a compilation of a series of papers originally published in The Dial in 1919, each of which mainly analyzes and criticizes the price system, planned obsolescence, and artificial scarcity. The final chapter outlined a plan for a "soviet of technicians."[2]

See for background on the Federalized organization of industry in a post-war world in Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano and for a contribution by an esteemed author to the technocracy movement.[3]

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