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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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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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 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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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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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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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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