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	Thorstein Veblen - MSN Encarta
		Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929), American economist and social scientist, notable for his historical investigation of the economic structure of society and for his analysis of the contemporary economic system.
		Thorstein Bunde Veblen was born in Cato, Wisconsin, and educated at Carleton College, in Northfield, Minnesota, and at Johns Hopkins, Yale, and Cornell universities.
		Veblen maintained in other writings that the economic system of his day was based on price fluctuations and suggested that the inefficiency of the system be corrected by placing experts in charge of production and distribution.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761567203 (314 words)

	Biographies: The Economists: Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929).
		Veblen's theory of the leisure class is to be compared to that of Marx's theory.
		Veblen, however, was of the view that the lower classes were not out to overthrow the upper class; but, rather, strived to climb up to it.
		In 1906, Veblen was to move on, eventually to teach at Stanford and then at the University of Missouri (1911).
	www.blupete.com /Literature/Biographies/Philosophy/Veblen.htm (421 words)

	Thorstein Veblen
		Thorstein Veblen was an American economist and sociologist.
		Thorstein Veblen began his career in the midst of this period of intellectual ferment, and as a young scholar came into direct contact with some of the leading figures of the various movements that were to shape the style and substance of the newly-minted social sciences into the next century and beyond.
		Veblen saw the need for taking account of cultural variation in his approach; no universal human nature could possibly be invoked to explain the variety of norms and behaviors that the new science of anthropology showed to be the rule, rather than the exception.
	www.sociologyprofessor.com /socialtheorists/thorsteinveblen.php (426 words)

	Veblen, Thorstein - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Detached from the dominant American society by his cultural background and temperament, Veblen was able to dissect social and economic institutions and to analyze their psychological bases, thus laying the foundations for the school of institutional economics.
		His dry, involved, satiric style enabled Veblen to coin famous phrases such as "conspicuous consumption." In his criticism of the price system, his analysis of the business cycle, and his interpretation of the role of technical men in modern society, there are implications for social engineering.
		The influence of Thorstein Veblen on the economics of Harold Innis.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-veblen-t1.html (461 words)

	Thorstein Veblen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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).
		Veblen was born in Cato, Wisconsin, of Norwegian immigrant parents; his nephew Oswald Veblen became a famous mathematician.
		Thorstein Veblen's career began amidst the growth of the disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and psychology.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thorstein_Veblen (915 words)

	Thorstein Veblen - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Veblen, Thorstein Bunde (1857-1929), American economist and social scientist, notable for his historical investigation of the economic structure of...
		Thorstein Bunde Veblen (born Tosten Bunde Veblen July 30, 1857 – August 3, 1929) was a Norwegian-American sociologist and economist and a founder, along with John R. Thorstein Veblen Linkpage
		Major Works of Thorstein Veblen "Kant's Critique of Judgement", 1884, Journal of Speculative Philosophy "Some Neglected Points in the Theory of...
	encarta.msn.com /Thorstein_Veblen.html (134 words)

	Veblen, Thorstein
		Veblen (1857-1929), nordamerikansk sociolog og økonom af norsk afstamning.
		Thorstein Veblen underviste ved universiteterne i Chicago, Stanford og Missouri, og en tid ved New School for Social Research i New York.
		Essayet har klare selvbiografiske overtoner: Veblen var selv en udbryder fra det stærkt religiøse norsk-amerikanske miljø i Wisconsin hvor han voksede op, uden at han senere blev accepteret i noget andet miljø.
	www.leksikon.org /art.php?n=2686 (444 words)

	The Rake: The Rake's Progress : Thorstein Veblen and the New Barbarians
		Veblen’s progressive legacy is also the subject of the recent Thorstein Veblen and the American Way of Life, by Louis Patsouras, a history professor at Kent State University.
		While Thorstein Veblen and the American Way of Life is a primer on Veblen’s socialist tendencies, it’s rather a shame that it doesn’t include a biographical sketch of its subject, since Veblen was such an endearingly eccentric figure.
		Thorstein Veblen in the Twenty-First Class, an essay collection published to mark the centenary of Leisure Class, argues that the economist’s greatest contribution was inaugurating the field now known as cultural studies.
	www.rakemag.com /stories/printable.aspx?itemID=5234&catID=153&SelectCatID=153 (1766 words)

	The Naughty Professor
		When Veblen refused, writes his biographer Joseph Dorfman, "[his] days at Chicago were numbered." (The whereabouts of Veblen's wife, the long-suffering Ellen, were a matter of conjecture; she often retreated to a family-owned Oregon timber claim when life with her husband became stressful.
		Veblen wrote to Jordan that "she is not at present hampered for want of money." Jordan warned him that a court would require him to pay his wife hefty maintenance fees for desertion.
		Veblen dipped his pen in acid when describing the modern university president ("an itinerant dispensary of salutary verbiage"), trustees ("quite useless to the university") and professional schools ("the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing and dancing").
	www.stanfordalumni.org /news/magazine/1997/sepoct/articles/veblen.html (1298 words)

	Thorstein Veblen information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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).
		Veblen was born in Cato, Wisconsin, of Norwegian immigrant parents; his nephew Oswald Veblen became a famous mathematician.
		Thorstein Veblen's career began amidst the growth of the disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and psychology.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Thorstein_Veblen (946 words)

	Thorstein Veblen Linkpage
		Summarizes Veblen's denunciation of what he saw as an exploitation of the American Indian.
		Veblen, T.B. Brief biography, along with hyperlinks to numerous articles by the economist.
		Veblen's writings are sized up in three paragraphs excerpted from a book by Mark Blaug.
	www.mnc.net /norway/veblen.html (132 words)

	John G. Wright: Thorstein Veblen, Sociologist (1935)
		And Veblen borrowed it from Maine as did Spencer who also said that “societies may be grouped as militant and industrial; of which one type is organized on the principle of compulsory cooperation; the other on the principle of voluntary cooperation”.
		Veblen’s saga of the struggle that has been going on the historical arena between the two types of human nature suffers because it must be submitted to examination not as the work of a poet but that of a scientist.
		Allowing Veblen his flights of fancy, his races, his human variants, social systems and epochs, he must still explain what it is that operates to suppress the Nordic ascendancy so prevalent in modern life, and what made it possible for the barbarian variant to emerge on so universal a scale.
	www.marxists.org /history/etol/writers/wright/1935/01/veblen.htm (3679 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / Weary of the leisure class
		Veblen minted the term "conspicuous consumption" to describe the profligacy of the turn-of-the-century rich, who used ornament and glitz to signal their class and wealth to others.
		Veblen was equally unorthodox in his thinking, arguing that neither Marxism nor neoclassical economics adequately explained the workings of modern capitalism.
		Long before Thomas Frank, Veblen zeroed in on what was the matter with Kansas, writing with bitter sarcasm of the "captains of solvency": "The larger the proportion of the community's wealth and income which he has taken over, the larger the deference and imputation of merit imputed to him.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2004/12/12/weary_of_the_leisure_class?pg=full (968 words)

	Veblen - The Work - Sociology of Knowledge (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Throughout his writings Veblen emphasized the ways in which habits of thought are an outcome of habits of life and stressed the dependence of thought styles on the organization of the community.
		Veblen distinguishes between earlier stages of human evolution, when whole communities exhibited characteristic habits of thoughts, and later stages, when human societies have differentiated into distinct strata, with distinct occupational roles emerging.
		Veblen argues that habits of thought, which arise in tune with a man's position in the social and occupational order, find their reflection in types of knowledge as well as in behavior.
	www2.pfeiffer.edu /~lridener/DSS/Veblen/VEBLENW4.HTML (707 words)

	AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY: Recent American Thought - 2 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Before Veblen turned to the study of social and economic facts and theories, he had concentrated upon philosophy, especially the works of Kant, Comte and Spencer, and, in his later years, the problems of economics remained closely connected in Veblen's mind with fundamental problems of life, civilization and the general theory of science.
		Although Veblen was strongly impressed by the doctrine of evolution, he was opposed to the simple application of the evolutionary principles to the study of social phenomena.
		Veblen's businessperson makes profits not by providing an outlet for the forces of industrialization and social evolution but by distorting them: by engaging in monetary manipulations, by restricting output to keep prices artificially high, and by interfering with the engineers who actually produce goods and services.
	radicalacademy.com /amphilosophy8a.htm (1606 words)

	TomFolio.com: by Thorstein Veblen
		In his introductory chapter, Veblen states by way of summary that "the absentee owners large and small have come to control the ways and means of prouction and distribution, at large and in detail, in what is to be done and what is to be left undone.
		Veblen uses the leisure class of his example because it is this class that sets the standards followed by every level of society.
		Veblen argues that the organization of specialized schools & colleges into universities is counterproductive, as it interferes with the work of each school and imposes high overhead costs that would not otherwise exist.
	www.tomfolio.com /SearchAuthorTitle.asp?Aut=Thorstein_Veblen (1388 words)

	Thorstein Veblen, Biography: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty
		Thorstein Veblen was odd man out in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century American economics.
		Veblen's skepticism about religion and his rough manners and unkempt appearance made him unattractive to such universities.
		Veblen later became managing editor of the Journal of Political Economy, which was and is edited at the University of Chicago.
	www.econlib.org /library/Enc/bios/Veblen.html (435 words)

	Thorstein Veblen Biography and Summary
		Thorstein Veblen was born on July 30, 1857, in Valders,...
		Economist, sociologist, and a founder of institutional economics, Thorstein Bunde Veblen (1857–1929) was born in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, on July 30.
		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).
	www.bookrags.com /Thorstein_Veblen (213 words)

	Thorstein Veblen — Infoplease.com
		Detached from the dominant American society by his cultural background and temperament, Veblen was able to dissect social and economic institutions and to analyze their psychological bases, thus laying the foundations for the school of institutional economics.
		His dry, involved, satiric style enabled Veblen to coin famous phrases such as “conspicuous consumption.”; In his criticism of the price system, his analysis of the business cycle, and his interpretation of the role of technical men in modern society, there are implications for social engineering.
		Thorstein Veblen and human emotions: an unfulfilled prescience.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0850567.html (332 words)

	Thorstein Veblen / Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Veblen argued that a fundamental conflict exists between the making of goods and the making of money.
		Veblen's businessperson makes profits not by providing an outlet for the forces of industrialization and social evolution but by distorting them: by engaging in monetary manipulations, by restricting output to keep prices artificially high, and by interfering with the engineers who actually produce goods and services.
		The founder of the so-called institutionalist school, Veblen believed that economics must not be studied as a closed system but rather as an aspect of a culture whose customs and habits constitute institutions that are rapidly changing.
	www.cooperativeindividualism.org /veblenbio.html (183 words)

	Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis-The Region-Reviving Home & Legacy of Thorstein Veblen (December 1993) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Despite his intellectual acclaim, Veblen is largely ignored by mainstream economists whose work is dominated by neoclassical economics steeped in mathematical technique, market equilibrium and self-interest as the individual's major motivator.
		Veblen scoffed at the notion of such an orderly, rational world and the "normalistic obsession" of classical economics.
		Thorstein Veblen later used the same "no cash nexus" method at Stanford, giving two students and their father room and board in exchange for housework.
	minneapolisfed.org /pubs/region/93-12/reg9312b.cfm (3642 words)

	Amazon.ca: Thorstein Veblen: Books: John Wood,John Cunningham Wood (Site not responding. Last check: )
		These volumes provide an in-depth study of Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) whose best-known work, The Theory of the Leisure Class, elaborated the concept of "conspicuous consumption." Veblen's work on institutional economics drew on social Darwinism to emphasize the important role of the social and political non-economic environment in shaping economic activity.
		Veblen went on to criticize much of orthodox economics for its failure to take account of the structural evolution of this non-economic environment.
		Thorstein Veblen: Critical Assessments is the fifteenth work in the Routledge series of Critical Assessments of Leading Economists and Contemporary Economists.
	www.amazon.ca /Thorstein-Veblen-John-Wood/dp/0415074878 (330 words)

	"Trained Incapacity": Thorstein Veblen and Kenneth Burke \| KBJournal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Veblen notes that most economists of his time assumed the former (187), while his essay makes a case for the latter.
		Although Veblen does not use the phrase that he coined four years earlier, he appears to be dealing with the same problem as the trend toward specialization in business schools sacrifices the breadth of knowledge that more traditional colleges attempt to impart, creating a kind of blindness in business school graduates that has negative consequences.
		Veblen further attaches action (behavior) to instinct (thought) by stating that man has a purpose that is innate, and that this purpose is reflected in man’s behavior.
	kbjournal.org /node/103 (3593 words)

	Thorstein Veblen, Economics
		Thorstein Veblen to Sarah McLean Hardy, January 18, 1896.
		Veblen was one of the first academics to examine seriously the relationship between consumption and wealth in society.
		Veblen argued that the application of business standards to measure the success or failure of academic inquiry was smothering higher education and turning universities into little more than advanced technical schools.
	www.lib.uchicago.edu /projects/centcat/centcats/fac/facch09_01.html (564 words)

	Greenwood Publishing Group : The Intellectual Legacy of Thorstein Veblen
		Scholars attempting to place Veblen in a particular intellectual tradition will only succeed in reaping frustration and confusion until it is recognized that he was primarily sui generis and eclectic.
		Veblen was a thinker of such depth and power that he was able to create his own intellectual paradigm.
		The result of his endeavors is that more than a few intellectuals including his followers, the institutional economists, have spent their careers trying to understand the paradigm and to develop it in several directions for their own purposes.
	www.greenwood.com /books/printFlyer.aspx?sku=GM9946&location=international (323 words)

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