Connaissance, finance et économie de guerre permanente. Une approche veblenienne

The exploitation of knowledge is one of the dynamics that characterizes the capitalist economic system. Demonstrating this thesis through Veblen’s thought, we will provide a new key to understand the processes characterizing it, concerning the financialization of the economy and of the knowledge. The specific case of the military sector will be the basis of a parallelism between Veblen and Melman, from which arise two basic elements: the logic of power, closely linked to the dynamics of the financial activities of the economy and that, related, of waste.