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Cover of The Engineers and the Prices System by Thorstein Veblen

The Engineers and the Prices System

Thorstein Veblen · 1921
Mentioned 1 time across 1 podcast · 2022
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#274 Jim Clark (Silicon Graphics, Netscape)
Founders · Oct 2022 · 16:27
so it says back in nineteen twenty nine or nineteen twenty one this author had predicted that engineers would one day rule the us economy he argued that since the economy was premised on technology and the engineers were the only ones who actually understood how the technology worked that they would inevitably use their superior knowledge to seize power from the financiers and the captains of industry ▶ tap to hear this moment · 19s