The Engineers and the Price System

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| author = Thorstein Veblen

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| subject = Economics, Political economy

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| published = 1921

| publisher = B. W. Huebsch

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The Engineers and the Price System, by Thorstein Veblen, is a compilation of a series of papers originally published in The Dial in 1919,{{cite book|last=Edgell|first=Stephen|title=Veblen in Perspective|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4a_ACQAAQBAJ&q=Engineers+and+the+Price+System+Veblen&pg=PA27|year=2015|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781563241161|page=27}} each of which mainly analyzes and criticizes the price system, planned obsolescence, and artificial scarcity.{{cite book|last1=Veblen|first1=Thorstein|title=The Engineers and the Price System|date=1921|publisher=B. W. Huebsch|location=New York|url=https://archive.org/download/engineersandpri01veblgoog/engineersandpri01veblgoog.pdf|accessdate=14 June 2015}} The final chapter outlined a plan for a "soviet of technicians".{{cite book|last=Akin|first=William|title=Technocracy and the American Dream|url=https://archive.org/details/technocracyameri0000akin|url-access=registration|quote=Engineers and the Price System Veblen.|page=[https://archive.org/details/technocracyameri0000akin/page/n45 24]|year=1977|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520031104}}