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Title: Too little wit, too late
Review: To be honest, a bit of a disappointment, especially after the build-up it receives in the chapter on Veblen in Heilbroner's classic The Worldly Philosophers. As always, Veblen tends toward the verbose, but here your effort is rarely rewarded with the wit that pervades Veblen's earlier works such as "A Plea for Cannibalism" and "An Apology for a Toper". It's quite a bit into the book before Veblen suggests his remedy for bloated American universities: simply fire everyone who works in the administrations, because all of their work is superfluous anyway. While this suggestion struck a sympathetic chord with me-as my own frustrating experiences with the multi-layers of bureaucracy at the University of Chicago probably mirror Veblen's own-this aside came too late in the book to relieve my overall boredom with it.
