Thorstein Veblen

Tags: Economist.

Thorstein Bunde Veblen (born Torsten Bunde Veblen; July 30 1857 – August 3 1929) was an American economist and sociologist and leader of the institutional economics movement. Besides his technical work he was a popular and witty critic of capitalism as shown by his best known book The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899).Veblen is famous in the history of economic thought for combining a Darwinian evolutionary perspective with his new institutionalist approach to economic analysis.

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birth date

1857-07-30

birth place

Cato Wisconsin

death date

1929-08-03

death place

Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park California

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Thorstein Bunde Veblen (1857-1929)

field

Evolutionary economics, Sociology

individualised GND number

118643126

influenced

Lewis Mumford, Geoffrey Hodgson, C. Wright Mills, Harold Innis, Wesley Clair Mitchell, Edith Penrose, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Maurice Clark, Clarence Edwin Ayres, Robert A. Brady (economist), Jonathan Nitzan, Shimshon Bichler

influenced by

John Dewey, Karl Marx, William Graham Sumner, William James, Charles Fourier, Gustav von Schmoller, Herbert Spencer, Georges Vacher de Lapouge, Claude Henri de Rouvroy comte de Saint-Simon, William McDougall (psychologist), John Bates Clark, Lester Frank Ward

nationality

Norwegian American