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.
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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