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Thorstein Veblen

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Also known as Thorstein Bunde Veblen

American economist and sociologist (1857–1929)

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Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929) was an American and Norwegian economist, sociologist, writer, and professor. Born in Cato, he held a Doctor of Philosophy degree and worked at the University of Missouri, Stanford University, and the University of Chicago. His academic training included studies at Johns Hopkins University, Carleton College, and Yale University, with William Graham Sumner serving as his doctoral advisor. Veblen was a member of the Socialist Party of America and identified as an atheist.

He is noted for his work in economics, including *The Theory of the Leisure Class*, *Absentee ownership and business enterprise in recent times*, and *Essays in our changing order*. Other publications include *The engineers and the price system* and *An inquiry into the nature of peace and the terms of its perpetuation*. Veblen wrote in English and Norwegian. His archives are held at Carleton College, and he was a relative of Oswald Veblen. He died in Menlo Park.

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Born
1857-07-30
Died
1929-08-03
Works
63

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  • Absentee ownership and business enterprise in recent times
  • Essays in our changing order
  • The engineers and the price system
  • An inquiry into the nature of peace and the terms of its perpetuation
  • The theory of the leisure class

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Thorstein Bunde Veblen, born Torsten Bunde Veblen (July 30, 1857 – August 3, 1929) was an American economist and sociologist, and a leader of the so-called institutional economics movement. Besides his technical work he was a popular and witty critic of capitalism, as shown by his best known book The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899). Veblen is famous in the history of economic thought for combining a Darwinian evolutionary perspective with his new institutionalist approach to economic analysis

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  1. Widespread Increase of Tree Mortality Rates in the Western United States

    · 2009 · cited 1,466x

  2. Why is Economics not an Evolutionary Science?

    · 1898 · cited 998x

  3. Evidence for declining forest resilience to wildfires under climate change

    · 2017 · cited 619x

  4. Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers

    · 2020 · cited 615x

  5. The Interaction of Fire, Fuels, and Climate across Rocky Mountain Forests

    · 2004 · cited 576x

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Quotes

  • “Any evolutionary science... is a close-knit body of theory. It is a theory of a process, of an unfolding sequence... of cumulative causation. The great deserts of the evolutionist leaders... lie... in their having shown how this colorless impersonal sequence of cause and effect can be made use of for theory proper, by virtue of its cumulative character.”
  • “The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the transition from a peaceable to a consistently warlike habit of life.”
  • “In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.”
  • “In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.”
  • “From the ownership of women the concept of ownership extends itself to include the products of their industry, and so there arises the ownership of things as well as of persons.”
  • “The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.”

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Thorstein Bunde Veblen (/ˈθɔːrstaɪn ˈvɛblən/ THOR-styn VEH-blən; July 30, 1857 – August 3, 1929) was an American economist and sociologist who, during his lifetime, emerged as a well-known critic of capitalism.

In his best-known book, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), Veblen coined the concepts of conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure. Veblen laid the foundation for the perspective of institutional economics. Contemporary economists still theorize Veblen's distinction between "institutions" and "technology", known as the Veblenian dichotomy.

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