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Thorstein Veblen on Education
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Thorstein Veblen and Joseph Schumpeter as precursors of economic sociology
… twentieth century's most influential economists, Thorstein Veblen and Joseph Schumpeter. Veblen and Schumpeter's works are analyzed and compared to each other in order to examine fundamental similarities and differences about important questions upon methodology and Capitalism. The questions, …
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Honor among thieves? Socio-economic theories of Thorstein Veblen in the plays of David Mamet
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Conspicuous Consumption and American Political Behavior
… form of conspicuous consumption as defined by Thorstein Veblen. The analyses that follow will test the degree to which Americans who demonstrate more traditional forms of conspicuous consumption also tend to show more activity in political venues. While the correlation of these two variables is …
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The Role of Monetary Policy in the Functional Income Distribution and Economic Growth in a Money Manager Capitalist System: The Case of United States of America: 1970 - 2015
… route, his "two-price" theory of investment, and Thorstein Veblen's q-ratio as crucial elements to understand monetary policy transmission through the capital market route and the changes of the functional distribution of income under Money Manager Capitalism. The first chapter presents a …
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Positional competition: from low-number license plates to McMansions
Over a century ago, Thorstein Veblen explored "conspicuous consumption" to signal social status. Building on Veblen, Fred Hirch (1976) defined a "positional good" as a good that derives its value from a social consensus regarding its desirability relative to other goods in its category. My thesis …
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The End of Capitalism, Again? An institutional-evolutionary view
… theory is based on a contemporary revival of Thorstein Veblen's work. I argue the theory contains the resources for investigating the historical specificity of capitalism. Following critique of existing debates on the future of capitalismpost-2008, I develop an original analysis of the …
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The comparative political economy of working time
… time regime described more than a century ago by Thorstein Veblen, defined by the contrast between a high-status "leisure class" and a low-status "working class". This shift has both compounded growing income inequality and helped legitimate and activate the self-interested opposition of the …