Stylistic sabotage and Thorstein Veblen's scientific irony.(Thorstein Veblen) From: Journal of Economic Issues | Date: September 1, 2005| Author: Cassano, Graham | COPYRIGHT 2005 Association for Evolutionary Economics. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Thorstein Veblen was, perhaps, the first theorist of the "post-modern era." By saying that, I do not mean to impose our belated historical categories upon his work; the hazards of such an abstract historicism are well known. But Vebten himself used the phrase "post-modern era" as early as 1918 to describe the Occident at the dawn of the twentieth century. (1) Clearly, Veblen did not mean what Jean-Francois Lyotard or Fredric Jameson meant by that same phrase. Nonetheless, the histo...

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