Notes from the Editors

• Published in: Monthly review (New York. 1949) Vol. 59; no. 7; p. 0_2
• Format: Magazine Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Monthly Review Press 01.12.2007
• Subjects: Biology; Capitalism; Conferences; Ecology; Human Genome Project; Political activism; Political economy; Politics

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Thorstein Veblen, the greatest critic of U.S. capitalism in the early twentieth century and one of the foremost social theorists of all times. Veblen was the subject of a special issue of Monthly Review fifty years ago last July in celebration of...