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Thorstein Veblen
American economist and sociologist (1857–1929)
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Born | Thorstein Bunde Veblen (1857-07-30)July 30, 1857 Cato, Wisconsin, U.S. |
Died | August 3, 1929(1929-08-03) (aged 72) Menlo Park, California, U.S. |
Field | Economics, socioeconomics |
Institutions | |
School or tradition | Institutional economics |
Alma mater | |
Influences | Herbert Spencer, Thomas Paine, William Graham Sumner, Lester F.
Ward, William James, Georges Vacher de Lapouge, Edward Bellamy, John Dewey, Gustav von Schmoller, John Bates Clark, Henri de Saint-Simon, Charles Fourier |
Contributions | Conspicuous consumption, conspicuous leisure, trained incapacity, Veblenian dichotomy |
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 of capitalism.
In his best-known book, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), Veblen coined the concepts o