This volume by an Associate Professor of Sociology at Colgate University certainly bears a most intriguing title. The juxta-position of Freud and Veblen is rather unusual, to say the least. It is rather a pity, in a way, that the study attempted remains for the most part still-born. The author rides off in too many directions at once; and perhaps the steed was none too sturdy in the first place. The author's avowed purpose is to examine connections between Freudian psychology and Thorstein Veblen's social theory. It was Veblen himself who claimed that much of economic theory was based on inadequate psychological premises. Veblen's own theories were given a foundation of psychological theory quite different from that of his classical opponents. And as this study only too clearly shows, Veblen's psychology was woefully inadequate for