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Thorstein Bunde Veblen (born Tosten Bunde Veblen July 30, 1857 – August 3, 1929) was a Norwegian-American sociologist and economist and a leader of the Efficiency Movement, most famous for his Theory of the Leisure Class (1899). He was also part of the Technical Alliance, created in 1918-19 by Howard Scott and which became the Technocratic movement.
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Veblen was born in Cato, Wisconsin, of Norwegian immigrant parents; his nephew Oswald Veblen became a famous mathematician. He spoke only Norwegian at home and did not learn English until a teenager.
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Consumption and Wealth :: Economics
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Thorstein Veblen~ The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
Thorstein Veblen~ The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
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The Theory of the Leisure Class - HTML web version.
The Theory of the Leisure Class - Text of the first of the major attacks on conspicuous consumption. Asserts that class warfare is actually nonexistent, because the lower classes try to emulate their upper class superiors through consumerism.
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Veblen: The Theory of the Leisure Class: Cover - The first and still foremost of the modern attack on wealth. This book originated the term conspicuous consumption
Why is Economics Not an Evolutionary Science - Critical of the idea that economics is a cohesive body of fact.
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