Technical Elite Author:Jay M. Gould In this study originally planned as an introduction to a new edition of Veblen's The Engineers and the Price System, Gould reviews the reasoning underlying Veblen's anticipation of continuing and irreconciable conflict between entrepreneurs and engineers. "Gould demonstrates ...that [as] technicians are ... becoming the entrepreneurs and c... more »aptains of industry ... the Veblenian conflict is being reconciled." The American Economic Review "The many statistics ... some of them previously unpublished, enhance its considerable value." Library Journal« less