Absentee Ownership

Veblen's last work provides a sober summation of his teaching in which he concluded that the forces of business-as-usual and of national integrity were steadily coalescing and that the continued supremacy of business nationalism would likely lead to a renewal of despotism. "In many ways sums up most effectively his economic analysis." W.C. Mitchell Types of Economic Theory, II. "Perhaps his greatest book." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences