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Economics

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According to Wikipedia, Thorstein Bunde Veblen was an American economist and sociologist who, during his lifetime, emerged as a well-known critic of capitalism. In his best-known book, The Theory of the Leisure Class , Veblen coined the concepts of conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure. Historians of economics regard Veblen as the founding father of the institutional economics school. Contemporary economists still theorize Veblen's distinction between "institutions" and "technology", known as the Veblenian dichotomy.

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Thorstein Veblen's Published Works

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The Theory of the Leisure Class (1901) (5070)
Why Economics is not an Evolutionary Science (1898) (1616)
Theory of Business Enterprise (1165)
The Engineers and the Price System (546)
The Limitations of Marginal Utility (1909) (390)
The Place of Science in Modern Civilization (1906) (357)
The Instinct of Workmanship and the Irksomeness of Labor (1898) (182)
Professor Clark's Economics (1908) (129)
On the Nature of Capital (1908) (126)
On the Nature of Capital: Investment, Intangible Assets, and the Pecuniary Magnate (1908) (119)
The Instinct of workmanship (1916) (102)
An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation (95)
The Beginnings of Ownership (1898) (78)
Mr. Cummings's Strictures on "The Theory of the Leisure Class" (1899) (73)
The Intellectual Pre-Eminence of Jews in Modern Europe (1919) (66)
Some Neglected Points in the Theory of Socialism (1891) (53)
The Barbarian Status of Women (1899) (48)
Fisher's Capital and Income (1908) (40)
The Opportunity of Japan (38)
Fisher's Rate of Interest (1909) (36)
Christian Morals and the Competitive System (1910) (35)
The Price of Wheat Since 1867 (1892) (27)
Credit and Prices (1905) (26)
What Veblen Taught: Selected Writings of Thorstein Veblen (1936) (22)
The nature of peace (15)
The Army of the Commonweal (1894) (12)
Boehm-Bawerk's Definition of Capital, and the Source of Wages (11)
The Nature of Peace and the Terms of its Perpetuation. (1917) (11)
The Food Supply and the Price of Wheat (1893) (10)
The Mutation Theory and the Blond Race 1 (9)
The Overproduction Fallacy (1892) (4)
The use of loan credit in modern business (3)
The Theory of the Leisure Class.@@@Absentee Ownership. (1925) (2)
What Veblen taught (1936) (2)
The Development of English Thought: A Study in the Economic Interpretation of History. By SIMON N. PATTEN. Pp. xxvii, 4I5. Price, $3.00. New York : The Macmillian Company, I899 (1899) (2)
Book Review:Aristocracy and Evolution: A Study of the Rights, the Origin, and the Social Functions of the Wealthier Classes W. H. Mallock (1898) (1)
Book Review:A Study of Small Holdings William E. Bear (1894) (1)
Book Review:The Land-Systems of British India B.H. Baden-Powell (1893) (1)
Book Review:L'individualisme economique et social: ses origines--son evolution--ses formes contemporaines Albert Schatz (1909) (1)
Using the I.W.W. to Harvest Grain (1932) (1)
Book Review:Esquisses de litterature politico-economique N. Ch. Bunge (1897) (0)
Book Review:The Ruling Caste and Frenzied Trade in Germany Maurice Millioud (1916) (0)
Book Review:History of the English Landed Interest (Modern Period) Russell M. Garnier (1894) (0)
Science and the workingmen (0)
The Social Economics of Karl Marx II: The Later Marxism (1906) (0)

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