Adam’s Fattacy: A Guide to Economic Theology
Veblen was not happy during that time despite all the books and papers he had already published. Then came the "drunken twenties" and the "hungrier thirties" periods of economic history that just validated Veblen's views of the world. In sum, this is an interesting book to read, not referred to Veblen's theories but to a period of time when a great human being was being observed by a young man who had no prejudice during the early years of the twentieth century. It helps to strengthen our traditions in the original institutional economics and for me it was quite clear that notions of instinct of workmanship, for example, are at the core of the Veblenian thought and cannot be easily discarded or removed. In the end, the book is well written and easy to read, and it gives the reader a good description of the changes that were taking place over the region surrounding Stanford and San Francisco.