Name and Link	Type of Resource	Description
Veblen and the 21st century Financial Crisis
James V. Cornehl Veblen's Theory of Finance Capitalism and Contemporary Corporate America. Journal of Economic Issues March 2004, Vol. 38 Issue 1, p29	Academic article
William K. Black How the Servant Became a Predator: Finance’s Five Fatal Flaws New Deal 2.0 AND at Huffington POst, Oct 2009 available, here and here	online article	Extract"What exactly is the function of the financial sector in our society? Simply this: Its sole function is supplying capital efficiently to aid the real economy. The financial sector is a tool to help those that make real tools, not an end in itself. But five fatal flaws in the financial sector's current structure have created a monster that drains the real economy, promotes fraud and corruption, threatens democracy, and causes recurrent, intensifying crises."
James K. Galbraith The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too Link to bookseller	Book
William T. Ganley The Theory of Business Enterprise and Veblen's Neglected Theory of Corporation Finance Journal of Economic Issues, June, 2004 The text is available online, here	Academic article
Doug Brown Thorstein Veblen in the Twenty-first Century: A Commemoration of the Theory of the Leisure Class (1899-1999) Link to bookseller	Book	Product Description This volume commemorates and celebrates Veblen's seminal contribution to the analysis of consumer capitalism and assesses the book's relevance to the 21st century. Veblen addressed the global economy, the women's movement, inequality, consumption and gambling in his pioneering work."