Sidney Plotkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 282721 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sidney Plotkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sidney |
| FAMILY NAME | Plotkin |
| SIGNATURE | PLOTKIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vassar College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Barbarian Architecture
Thorstein Veblen’s Absentee Ownership in the Age of the Anthropocene
This paper reconsiders Veblen’s Absentee Ownership on the centennial of its publication in 1923. It offers a reading of the work in relation to climate change in the new geologic age of the Anthropocene. The central finding is that Veblen’s analysis of the power implications of finance capital and law stand up well as guides to understanding the inertia of US energy policy. However, the book’s concept of ‘the industrial system’ is found seriously…
Veblen’s America
Veblen's America
Veblen, Europe and Utopia
Rick Tilman's new study, Veblen and his European Contemporaries, explores Veblen's conceptual relationship with a host of seminal European thinkers. Among the continuities and differences that Tilman develops, none stands out more than his strikingly original claim that in important ways Veblen's work parallels that of Ferdinand Tonnies. This essay reviews Tilman's study, with a particular emphasis on Veblen's idea of community, particularly its …
The Critic as Quietist
Though a radical critic of capitalist society, Thorstein Veblen was a political quietist. His ideas of social evolution, cultural lag, and predatory power help to explain why. Veblen saw the need for deep-seated social change but despaired of its chances. He was in crucial ways a tragic writer, a radical realist who refused to yield to the temptations of political life. Veblen's quietism also helps to explain the hesitant, often unwelcome recepti…
Introduction
In this introduction to the fourth part of an ongoing symposium on quietism, Perl, the editor of the sponsoring journal Common Knowledge, remarks on a new question raised in this latest grouping of articles. Can there be such a thing as a "mezza voce quietism"? Can there be activist quietists or quietist activists or active teachers of quietism without self-contradiction? Perl takes Gandhi and "passive resistance" as his own test case, concluding…
War and Economic Crisis
When Government Fails
Journal Article When Government Fails: The Orange County Bankruptcy. By Mark Baldassare. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xvii, 317 pp. Cloth, $48.00, ISBN 0-520-21485-4. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-520-21486-2.) Get access Sidney Plotkin Sidney Plotkin Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Page 330, http…
Thorstein Veblen and His Critics, 1891-1963
The Power Elite and the State
Journal Article The Power Elite and the State: How Policy Is Made in America, by G. William Domhoff Get access The Power Elite and the State: How Policy Is Made in America by G. William Domhoff. New York, Aldine De Gruyter, 1990. 315 pp. Cloth, $47.95; paper, $19.95. Sidney Plotkin Sidney Plotkin Vassar College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 3, Fall 1991, Pag…
The Quiet Evolution
Property, policy and politics
Corporate Power & Political Resistance
Professor Plotkin examines here the controversy over President Jimmy Carter's Energy Mobilization Board proposal to bring out the limits on corporate control of public policy. Focusing on the role of land use and environmental controls as elements of procedural democracy that can frustrate business objectives, he assesses the relevant pluralist, neo-pluralist, and structural theories for their ability to explain corporate power-public policy rela…
Policy Fragmentation and Capitalist Reform
Property, policy and politics
Corporate Power & Political Resistance
Professor Plotkin examines here the controversy over President Jimmy Carter's Energy Mobilization Board proposal to bring out the limits on corporate control of public policy. Focusing on the role of land use and environmental controls as elements of procedural democracy that can frustrate business objectives, he assesses the relevant pluralist, neo-pluralist, and structural theories for their ability to explain corporate power-public policy rela…
Barbarian Architecture
War and Economic Crisis
Policy Fragmentation and Capitalist Reform
Policy Fragmentation and Capitalist Reform
Corporate Power & Political Resistance
Professor Plotkin examines here the controversy over President Jimmy Carter's Energy Mobilization Board proposal to bring out the limits on corporate control of public policy. Focusing on the role of land use and environmental controls as elements of procedural democracy that can frustrate business objectives, he assesses the relevant pluralist, neo-pluralist, and structural theories for their ability to explain corporate power-public policy rela…
Property, policy and politics
The Quiet Evolution
The Power Elite and the State
Journal Article The Power Elite and the State: How Policy Is Made in America, by G. William Domhoff Get access The Power Elite and the State: How Policy Is Made in America by G. William Domhoff. New York, Aldine De Gruyter, 1990. 315 pp. Cloth, $47.95; paper, $19.95. Sidney Plotkin Sidney Plotkin Vassar College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 3, Fall 1991, Pag…
Thorstein Veblen and His Critics, 1891-1963
When Government Fails
Journal Article When Government Fails: The Orange County Bankruptcy. By Mark Baldassare. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xvii, 317 pp. Cloth, $48.00, ISBN 0-520-21485-4. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-520-21486-2.) Get access Sidney Plotkin Sidney Plotkin Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Page 330, http…
The Critic as Quietist
Though a radical critic of capitalist society, Thorstein Veblen was a political quietist. His ideas of social evolution, cultural lag, and predatory power help to explain why. Veblen saw the need for deep-seated social change but despaired of its chances. He was in crucial ways a tragic writer, a radical realist who refused to yield to the temptations of political life. Veblen's quietism also helps to explain the hesitant, often unwelcome recepti…
Introduction
In this introduction to the fourth part of an ongoing symposium on quietism, Perl, the editor of the sponsoring journal Common Knowledge, remarks on a new question raised in this latest grouping of articles. Can there be such a thing as a "mezza voce quietism"? Can there be activist quietists or quietist activists or active teachers of quietism without self-contradiction? Perl takes Gandhi and "passive resistance" as his own test case, concluding…
War and Economic Crisis
Veblen, Europe and Utopia
Rick Tilman's new study, Veblen and his European Contemporaries, explores Veblen's conceptual relationship with a host of seminal European thinkers. Among the continuities and differences that Tilman develops, none stands out more than his strikingly original claim that in important ways Veblen's work parallels that of Ferdinand Tonnies. This essay reviews Tilman's study, with a particular emphasis on Veblen's idea of community, particularly its …
Veblen’s America
Veblen's America
Thorstein Veblen’s Absentee Ownership in the Age of the Anthropocene
This paper reconsiders Veblen’s Absentee Ownership on the centennial of its publication in 1923. It offers a reading of the work in relation to climate change in the new geologic age of the Anthropocene. The central finding is that Veblen’s analysis of the power implications of finance capital and law stand up well as guides to understanding the inertia of US energy policy. However, the book’s concept of ‘the industrial system’ is found seriously…
Barbarian Architecture
Economics (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Neoclassical economics (7 works) · Veblen good (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works)