Abstract
General presuppositions and/or theoretical affiliations and infuences: American Pragmatism (Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, John Dewey), Social Darwinism (Herbert Spencer, W.G. Sumner), Karl Marx. Model/ paradigm(s): economic institutions in modern society. Concepts: state of the arts (craftmanship, handicraft, captains of industry, absentee ownership, captains of solvency), separation between commerce and production, agriculture and industry (‘independent farmer’, ‘country town’, ‘pioneering spirit’); pecuniary culture (conspicuous consumption, leisure class). Empirical environment(s): USA (the Gilded Age, c. 1870–1900).
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