The Higher Learning in America: The Annotated Edition: A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men

The first scholarly edition of Thorstein Veblen’s classic indictment of the corporate model of American university governance.

Since its publication in 1918, Thorstein Veblen’s The Higher Learning in America has remained a text that every serious student of the American university must confront. Intellectual historian Richard Teichgraeber brings us the first scholarly edition of Veblen’s classic, thoroughly edited, annotated, and indexed. An extensive introduction discusses the book’s compos...