Unemployed for over six years and living with his in-laws, Thorstein Veblen devoted himself to a ninety-thousand-word translation of The...
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[image_credit]Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain[/image_credit][image_caption]Thorstein Veblen[/image_caption] Economist and social scientist...
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Several characterizations of the wealthy in his writings seem especially relevant to the ongoing admissions scandal, Mike Martin observes.
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BY NOW, the shortage of medical supplies in the United States is a notorious fact. The nation has between 160,000 and 200,000 ventilators;...
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Thorstein Veblen was the most important economic thinker of the Gilded Age.
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FOR DECADES, Thorstein Veblen has been the greatest American thinker without a good biography. An unsparing critic of our last gilded age,...
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In Veblen: The Making of an Economist Who Unmade Economics, Charles Camic challenges the longstanding portayal of economic theorist Thorstein Veblen as a...
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The great progressive intellectual saw America trapped between competing impulses, which Trump embodies perfectly.
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En sønn av norske utvandrere ble verdenskjent for kritikken av den amerikanske «uproduktive klassen». Så ble han glemt.
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Princeton's computing story begins not with Alan Turing *38, Alonzo Church '24 *27, John von Neumann, or Albert Einstein, but with Oswald Veblen.
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