The influential economist and philosopher Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was one of the most original and penetrating critics of American culture and institutions. His work still attracts the attention of scholars from a wide range of political viewpoints and scholarly disciplines…
The influential economist and philosopher Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was one of the most original and penetrating critics of American culture and institutions, and his work attracted and still attracts the attention of scholars from a wide range of political viewpoints and sch…
The influential economist and philosopher Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was one of the most original and penetrating critics of American culture and institutions. His work still attracts the attention of scholars from a wide range of political viewpoints and scholarly disciplines…
Introduction -- Early days -- Basics -- Social evolution -- Veblen's new theory -- The critique continued -- Veblen's theory of business -- The Great War -- Revolution
In his latest book, scholar-historian Murray G. Murphey exhaustively explores the life and theory of Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929), whom, many scholars agree, remains one of the leading social theorists of all time, if not also one of the more confounding. Murphey's account begin…
Donald Trump's astonishing rise to the US presidency challenges conventional understandings of American politics, yet he is distinctively American. His biography and family lineage reflect American traditions such as real estate hucksterism and buccaneering salesmanship. But Tru…
'Veblen's America' examines the astonishing political rise of Donald Trump through the portal of Thorstein Veblen's theory of barbaric legacies in American development.
Amidst the global financial and political crises of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, scholars have turned for insight to the work of the radical American thinker, Thorstein Veblen. Inspired by an abundance of new research, social scientists from multiple disc…
