ヴェブレンとガルブレイス : その社会思想の類似性(ソースタイン・ヴェブレンの研究(共同))

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Thorstein Bunde Veblen (1857-1929), who is known as the founder of the institutional school, had predicted the birth of a complex of modern problems--such as those arising from massproduction by the giant enterprises and from the mass consumption made possible by the emergence of the mass-consumption society. And there is an economic scientist who is continuing to analyze Veblen's predictions as if he were monitoring them as their keeper. And, that authority is the noted John Kenneth Galbraith (1908- ), who, like Veblen, belongs to the institutional school and is well known in Japan. In terms of thought and ideas, the social theories of Veblen and Galbraith have much in common and the two are linked by an invisible cord. Both thinkers are cognizant of the contradictions lurking in the bosom of social systems, and it so happens that the two adopt the same analytical approach. In respect to the similarities in thought between Veblen and Galbraith, this paper examines the concepts of "prevalent habits of thought" and "conventional wisdom" (in connection with the doing away with preconceptions), the concepts of "machine process" and "technostructure" (in connection with the elimination of competition by the giant enterprises and the mechanisms thereof), the concepts of "conspicuous consumption" and "dependence effect" (in connection with the importance of the creation of consumption demand and the techniques involved in such a creation), and the concept of "countervailing power" and the peripheral concepts of "conflicts in human nature" and "group conflict" (in connection with the power of human will in society). Although their theories differ in their particulars, our examination makes clear that Galbraith occupies an important position as a successor to the visionary Veblen.
日本大学の論文
1995-03-31

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奥木巧
平方学園明和県央高等学校

ヴェブレンとガルブレイス : その社会思想の類似性(ソースタイン・ヴェブレンの研究(共同))

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