Thorstein Bunde Veblen (July 30, 1857 – August 3, 1929) was an American economist and sociologist who, during his lifetime, emerged as a well-known critic...
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A Veblen good is a type of luxury good, named after American economist Thorstein Veblen, for which the demand increases as the price increases, in apparent...
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The Thorstein Veblen Farmstead is a National Historic Landmark near Nerstrand in rural Rice County, Minnesota. The property preserves the childhood home...
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Veblen may refer to: Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929), American economist and sociologist Thomas T. Veblen (born 1947), American forester Oswald Veblen (1880–1960)...
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The Theory of the Leisure Class (category Books by Thorstein Veblen)
of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (1899), by Thorstein Veblen, is a treatise of economics and sociology, and a critique of conspicuous...
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Institutional economics (category Thorstein Veblen)
institutions in shaping economic behavior. Its original focus lay in Thorstein Veblen's instinct-oriented dichotomy between technology on the one side and...
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of Thorstein Veblen. Early technocratic organisations formed after the First World War. These included Henry Gantt’s "The New Machine" and Veblen’s "Soviet...
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tb01899.x. Wood, John (1993). The life of Thorstein Veblen and perspectives on his thought. introd. Thorstein Veblen. New York: Routledge. p. 369. ISBN 978-0-415-07487-2...
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at the University of Iowa, and Kirsti (Hougen) Veblen (1851–1908). Veblen's uncle was Thorstein Veblen, noted economist and sociologist. Oswald went to...
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(who lived just outside the city limits), became state legislators. Thorstein Veblen, who grew up just outside the town, became a noted sociologist and...
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Technological determinism (category Thorstein Veblen)
and cultural values. The term is believed to have originated from Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929), an American sociologist and economist. The most radical...
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is the male equivalent. In his Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), Thorstein Veblen suggested that "The original reason for the seizure and appropriation...
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The Engineers and the Price System (category Books by Thorstein Veblen)
The Engineers and the Price System, by Thorstein Veblen, is a compilation of a series of papers originally published in The Dial in 1919, each of which...
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2017 at the Wayback Machine Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class: an economic study of institutions (1899) Veblen, Thorsten. (1904). Theory...
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Law of demand (section Veblen goods)
more, since it will be further out of reach for an average consumer. Thorstein Veblen referred to this sort of consumption as the purchase of goods that...
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Neoclassical economics (category Thorstein Veblen)
economics" from the 1950s onward. The term was originally introduced by Thorstein Veblen in his 1900 article "Preconceptions of Economic Science", in which...
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List of liberal theorists (section Thorstein Veblen)
Louis Brandeis (1856–1941) Thorstein Veblen (1857–1926) is best known as the author of Theory of the Leisure Class. Veblen was influential to a generation...
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The Theory of Business Enterprise (category Books by Thorstein Veblen)
Business Enterprise is an economics (or political economy) book by Thorstein Veblen, published in 1904, that looks at the growing corporate domination...
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Conspicuous consumption (category Thorstein Veblen)
price, or in greater quantity than practical. In 1899, the sociologist Thorstein Veblen coined the term conspicuous consumption to explain the spending of...
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economy, thought to stem from the works of institutionalists such as Thorstein Veblen, John Commons, Wesley Mitchell and John Dewey. It emphasizes the impact...
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Backwardness (section Veblen)
and many countries appear to follow both models rather adequately. Thorstein Veblen's 1915 Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution is an extended...
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Du Bois, Vilfredo Pareto, Alexis de Tocqueville, Werner Sombart, Thorstein Veblen, Ferdinand Tönnies, Georg Simmel, Jane Addams and Karl Mannheim are...
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on the Legacy of Thorstein Veblen, edited by Michael Hudson and Ahmet Öncü, New York: ISLET-Verlag, 2016, essay on "Thorstein Veblen: An American Economic...
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Conspicuous leisure (category Thorstein Veblen)
is a concept introduced by the American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen in The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899). Conspicuous or visible leisure...
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views also influenced 20th-century sociologist and economist Thorstein Veblen, including Veblen's creation of institutional economics that has included prominent...
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of experience and involvement. Other classic definitions include Thorstein Veblen's (1899) of "nonproductive consumption of time." Free time is not easy...
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egalitarian democracy was a direct result of the influence of ideas from Thorstein Veblen, John Dewey, and Mead. During his time at the University of Wisconsin...
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Trickle-down fashion (section Veblen)
years earlier. The theory of conspicuous consumption was introduced by Thorstein Veblen in his book The Theory of the Leisure Class. The oldest theory of distribution...
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Evolutionary economics (category Thorstein Veblen)
term "evolutionary economics" might have been first coined by Thorstein Veblen. Veblen saw the need for taking into account cultural variation in his...
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with institutional political economists such as Thorstein Veblen. In particular, they share Veblen's explanation that business exists with the end of...
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