Thorstein Veblen

Biographic Data

ID257295
NAMEThorstein Veblen
GIVEN NAMESThorstein
FAMILY NAMEVeblen
SIGNATUREVEBLEN T
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Chicago
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS71
TOTAL CITATIONS331
AUTHOR COUNT71
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1892
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX8

  • [10] The Limitations of Marginal Utility

    Malcolm Rutherford, Warren J Samuels et al.CHAPTERClassics in Institutional…2024

    The article written by the founder of institutionalism and published in 1909 is translated into Russian for the first time. Veblen criticizes different versions of neoclassical theories of production and consumption, trying to consider human behavior in the wide cultural context. He suggests a methodological alternative to neoclassical theory, rebutting teleological explanations of neoclassics and emphasizing causal relations. Moreover Veblen for…

  • Barbarzyński status kobiet

    Open AccessThorstein VeblenARTICLEStudia Krytyczne/Critical Studies2024

  • Miejsce uniwersytetu w nowoczesnym życiu

    Open AccessThorstein VeblenARTICLEStudia Krytyczne/Critical Studies2022

    Celem tekstu jest ukazanie miejsca uniwersytetu w rozwiniętych krajach kapitalistycznych na początku XX wieku. Autor pokazuje pokrewieństwo między adeptami wiedzy w czasach dawnych (w tym kapłanami i szamanami) i obecnych (naukowcami). W tekściezwraca się uwagę na fakt, że bez względu na wszelkie różnice między przeszłością a teraźniejszością, w człowieku tkwi dążenie do bezinteresownej wiedzy i instynkt dobrej roboty. Współczesna cywilizacja prz…

  • The Economic Theory of Woman's Dress

    Open AccessThorstein VeblenARTICLEJournal of Economic Sociology2022

  • The Intellectual Pre-Eminence of Jews in Modern Europe 1

    Thorstein Veblen, Scott R Bowman et al.CHAPTEREssays in Our Changing Order2018

    It is a fact which must strike any dispassionate observer that the Jewish people have contributed much more than an even share to the intellectual life of modern Europe. Indeed, none of the peoples of Christendom has been more unremittingly exposed to hybridisation, in spite of all the stiff conventional precautions that have been taken to keep the breed pure. Cross-breeding commonly results in a gain to the Jewish community rather than conversel…

  • Essays In Our Changing Order

    Thorstein Veblen, Scott R Bowman et al.BOOKEssays in Our Changing Order2018

    Essays in Our Changing Order is the ninth volume in the collected works of America's pre-eminent social scientist. Each volume has a new opening essay, in this case, a comprehensive review of Veblen's works by Scott Bowman that stands by itself as a premier statement. Using an innovative framework, Bowman sees Veblen as concerned with three unifying themes: the dynamic interrelationships between instinct, habits of thought, environment, and socia…

  • The Instinct of Workmanship and the Irksomeness of Labor 1

    Thorstein Veblen, Scott R Bowman et al.CHAPTEREssays in Our Changing Order2018

    IT is one of the commonplaces of the received economic theory that work is irksome.Many a discussion proceeds on this axiom that, so far as regards economic matters, men desire above all things to get the goods produced by labor and to avoid the labor by which the goods are produced.In a general way the common-sense opinion is well in accord with current theory on this head.According to the common-sense ideal, the economic beatitude lies in an un…

  • The Theory of the Leisure Class

    Thorstein Veblen, C Wright MillsBOOKThe Theory of the Leisure Class2017

    "In The Theory of the Leisure Class, his first and best-known work, Thorstein Veblen challenges some of society's most cherished standards of behavior and, with devastating wit and satire, exposes the hollowness of many of our canons of taste, education, dress, and culture. Veblen uses the leisure class as his example because it is this class that sets the standards followed by every level of society. The sign of membership in the leisure class i…

  • The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts

    Thorstein VeblenBOOKInstinct of Workmanship and the…2017Cited by: 2

    Thorstein Veblen's "The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts" examines the conflict between humanity's innate drive for productive work and the societal structures that often impede it. Veblen argues that humans possess an "instinct of workmanship" that compels them towards efficient and creative labor. He traces the development of this instinct throughout history, demonstrating how technological advancements and evolving …

  • The Higher Learning as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture

    Thorstein VeblenCHAPTERThe Theory Of The Leisure Class2009

    To the end that suitable habits of thought on certain heads may be conserved in the incoming generation, a scholastic discipline is sanctioned by the common sense of the community and incorporated into the accredited scheme of life. The habits of thought which are...

  • Survivals of the Non-Invidious Interest

    Thorstein VeblenCHAPTERThe Theory Of The Leisure Class2009

    In an increasing proportion as time goes on, the anthropomorphic cult, with its code of devout observances, suffers a progressive disintegration through the stress of economic exigencies and the decay of the system of status. As this disintegration proceeds, there come to be associated...

  • The Belief in Luck

    Thorstein VeblenCHAPTERThe Theory Of The Leisure Class2009

    The gambling propensity is another subsidiary trait of the barbarian temperament. It is a concomitant variation of character of almost universal prevalence among sporting men and among men given to warlike and emulative activities generally. This trait also has a direct economic value. It...

  • Modern Survivals of Prowess

    Thorstein VeblenCHAPTERThe Theory Of The Leisure Class2009

    The leisure class lives by the industrial community rather than in it. Its relations to industry are of a pecuniary rather than an industrial kind. Admission to the class is gained by exercise of the pecuniary aptitudes—aptitudes for acquisition rather than for serviceability. There...

  • Conspicuous Leisure

    Thorstein VeblenCHAPTERThe Theory Of The Leisure Class2009

    If its working were not disturbed by other economic forces or other features of the emulative process, the immediate effect of such a pecuniary struggle as has just been described in outline would be to make men industrious and frugal. This result actually follows,...

  • Pecuniary Emulation

    Thorstein VeblenCHAPTERThe Theory Of The Leisure Class2009

    In the sequence of cultural evolution the emergence of a leisure class coincides with the beginning of ownership. This is necessarily the case, for these two institutions result from the same set of economic forces. In the inchoate phase of their development they are...

  • Introductory

    Thorstein VeblenCHAPTERThe Theory Of The Leisure Class2009

    The institution of a leisure class is found in its best development at the higher stages of the barbarian culture; as, for instance, in feudal Europe or feudal Japan. In such communities the distinction between classes is very rigorously observed; and the feature of...

  • Industrial Exemption and Conservatism

    Thorstein VeblenCHAPTERThe Theory Of The Leisure Class2009

    The life of man in society, just like the life of other species, is a struggle for existence, and therefore it is a process of selective adaptation. The evolution of social structure has been a process of natural selection of institutions. The progress which...

  • The Pecuniary Standard of Living

    Thorstein VeblenCHAPTERThe Theory Of The Leisure Class2009

    For the great body of the people in any modern community, the proximate ground of expenditure in excess of what is required for physical comfort is not a conscious effort to excel in the expensiveness of their visible consumption, so much as it is...

  • The Conservation of Archaic Traits

    Thorstein VeblenCHAPTERThe Theory Of The Leisure Class2009

    The institution of a leisure class has an effect not only upon social structure but also upon the individual character of the members of society. So soon as a given proclivity or a given point of view has won acceptance as an authoritative standard...

  • Dress as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture

    Thorstein VeblenCHAPTERThe Theory Of The Leisure Class2009

    It will be in place, by way of illustration, to show in some detail how the economic principles so far set forth apply to everyday facts in some one direction of the life process. For this purpose no line of consumption affords a more...

  • Pecuniary Canons of Taste

    Thorstein VeblenCHAPTERThe Theory Of The Leisure Class2009

    The caution has already been repeated more than once, that while the regulating norm of consumption is in large part the requirement of conspicuous waste, it must not be understood that the motive on which the consumer acts in any given case is this...

  • Devout Observances

    Thorstein VeblenCHAPTERThe Theory Of The Leisure Class2009

    A discursive rehearsal of certain incidents of modern life will show the organic relation of the anthropomorphic cults to the barbarian culture and temperament. It will likewise serve to show how the survival and efficacy of the cults and the prevalence of their schedule of...

  • Conspicuous Consumption

    Thorstein VeblenCHAPTERThe Theory Of The Leisure Class2009

    In what has been said of the evolution of the vicarious leisure class and its differentiation from the general body of the working classes, reference has been made to a further division of labour,—that between the different servant classes. One portion of the servant...

  • The Theory Of The Leisure Class

    Thorstein Veblen, Thorstein Bunde Veblen et al.BOOKThe Theory Of The Leisure Class2009

  • The Limitations of Marginal Utility

    Open AccessThorstein VeblenCHAPTERPhilosophy of Economics2007

    Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929) was born in Wisconsin and received his Ph.D. from Yale. He taught at the University of Chicago and at several other schools. Given his irascibility and his radical criticisms of American society, he was unable to find a permanent position. Veblen did, however, gain considerable renown – he was even offered the presidency of the American Economic Association (which he turned down). Veblen was, as in the essay reprinted…