Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929)
Autore di La teoria della classe agiata; studio economico sulle istituzioni
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Thorstein Bunde Veblen was an American economist and social scientist best known for challenging the economic theories of his time. He rejected the neat logic and natural laws of his contemporaries, asserting instead that economic order was evolutionary and that this evolution was strongly mostra altro influenced by institutions such as labor unions, business organizations, schools, and even churches. In so doing, Veblen laid the basis for what is now known as the institutional school of economics. Veblen was often described as being an aloof and isolated, albeit gifted, misfit. His sense of isolation was established early; he was born on a farm in rural Wisconsin to immigrant Norwegian parents. English was spoken only as a second language in the tight-knit Norwegian community and Veblen did not perfect his use of the language until he entered college. A voracious reader with a distinct aversion to farm work, he was sent to nearby Carleton College to study for the Lutheran ministry. While at Carleton, Veblen alienated some of the faculty with inflammatory and agnostic writings, and, although he graduated in 1880, it was without the divinity degree that would have enabled him to teach at one of the many small religious colleges of the time. After graduate work at Johns Hopkins University and Yale University, he returned to his parents' home, where he spent the next seven years relaxing, reading, and doing odd jobs. In 1888 he married Ellen Rolfe, much to the dismay of her uncle who happened to be the president of Carleton College. During this period, Veblen had little luck finding a job, even with the benefit of his wife's and her uncle's connections. Finally, at the age of 34, Veblen went to Cornell University to seek a teaching position. Despite his frontier appearance---corduroy trousers and coonskin cap---he was given a one-year teaching assignment. The next year he joined the faculty at the University of Chicago, where he taught until 1906. While at the University of Chicago, he wrote two of his most important works, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) and The Theory of Business Enterprise (1904). The Theory of the Leisure Class was an insightful, if not contemptuous, analysis of the excess consumption and wasteful behavior of the wealthy. Veblen contended that the modern quest for the accumulation of money, and its lavish display, was derived from the predatory barbarian practice of seizing goods and wealth without work. In The Theory of Business Enterprise, he described the heads of corporate enterprises as saboteurs of the economic system---people interested only in the financing of production rather than the process of production. This was a radical view, but Veblen was writing during the period when the "robber barons" seemed obsessed by the profits that could be made from stock flotations, bond issues, and other complex financial deals. Veblen's notorious womanizing cost him his position with the University of Chicago in 1906. He moved on to Stanford University, then the University of Missouri, and finally to the New School for Social Research in New York, where he taught briefly before retiring to a small rustic cabin in California. Divorced from his wife in 1911, he remarried in 1914, but his second wife was institutionalized shortly after for psychological problems. Veblen was one of the most provocative economists of his time, but his ideas were such that he attracted few disciples. Even so, economists have come to recognize the importance of institutions and their impact on economic behavior. Additional testament to the influence of his work is the fact that many of the terms he coined are in wide use today, among them conspicuous consumption conspicuous consumption, the leisure class, and cultural lag. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Thorstein Veblen
Veblen on Marx, race, science, and economics (The place of science in modern civilization and other essays) (1961) 32 copie
A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace and Capitalism (Studies on Contemporary China (M.E. Sharpe… (1993) 4 copie
Thorstein Veblen Selections from his work, with an introduction and commentaries by Bernard Rosenberg (1967) 3 copie
The Theory of the Leisure Class (Dover Thrift Editions) by Thorstein Veblen (1994-08-01) (1994) 1 copia
THORSTEIN VEBLEN Ultimate Collection: 8 Books & 50 Business Essays and Articles in Warfare and Economics: The Theory of… (2016) 1 copia
The Complete Works of Thorstein Veblen: Economics Books, Business Essays & Political Articles: The Theory of the… (2016) 1 copia
The theory of the leisure class, chapters 1-6: [and] Montaigne: Essays [selections (The Great books adult series:) (1966) 1 copia
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The Awakening [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.] (1976) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 808 copie
Lapham's Quarterly - Lines of Work: Volume IV, Number 2, Spring 2011 (2011) — Collaboratore — 29 copie
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- Nome canonico
- Veblen, Thorstein
- Nome legale
- Veblen, Thorstein Bunde
- Data di nascita
- 1857-07-30
- Data di morte
- 1929-08-03
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Cato, Wisconsin, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California, USA
- Causa della morte
- heart disease
- Luogo di residenza
- Menlo Park, California, USA
Washington Island, Wisconsin, USA - Istruzione
- Carleton College (B.A. | Economics | 1880)
Johns Hopkins University (graduate work)
Yale University (Ph.D. | 1884)
Cornell University - Attività lavorative
- professor
economist
sociologist - Relazioni
- Leacock, Stephen (student)
- Organizzazioni
- University of Chicago
Stanford University
University of Missouri-Columbia
New School for Social Research
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La teoria della classe agiata. di Thorstein Veblen
Quest'opera è una lettura in chiave antropologica dei meccanismi di formazione della società capitalistica e insieme una diagnosi della distorsione fondamentale che caratterizza le istituzioni economiche americane:il predominio del capitale finanziario su quello industriale. Quest'opera offre una critica graffiante dei compartamenti e dei valori propri della classe agiata, che vengono interpretati come il retaggio di un lontano passato barbarico nel quale la proprietà ebbe origine dalla rapina di guerra, la virtù del coraggio giustificò l'astensione dal lavoro manuale e il consumo vistoso, l'emulazione antagonistica e l'ozio divennero i simboli del potere sociale. lo sport e l'abbiggliamento , le istituzioni accademiche e le forme della vita religiosa, nell'analisi di Vemblen, confermano e promuovono questi comportamenti della classe agiata.… (altro)
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