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The Rhetoric of Veblen
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Thorstein Veblen on Education
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Thorstein Veblen and Joseph Schumpeter as precursors of economic sociology
… 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, which are …
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Honor among thieves? Socio-economic theories of Thorstein Veblen in the plays of David Mamet
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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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Conspicuous Consumption and American Political Behavior
… 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 not …
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Patterns and conditions of health lifestyles in the United States and West Germany
… Selected lines of thought from M. Weber, Th. Veblen and C. W. Mills are drawn together for their contribution to a socio-structural understanding of lifestyle. Those classical ideas are then related to contemporary theories on consumer culture, lifestyle, and body management as explicated by …
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Graph theory in America 1876-1950
… took up this field of study - notably, Oswald Veblen, George Birkhoff, Philip Franklin, and Hassler Whitney. It is necessary to stress that these four mathematicians and all the other scholars mentioned in this history were not just graph theorists but worked in many other disciplines. Indeed, …
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Systems Economics: Bringing complexity into post-Keynesian economics to address the 21st Century’s problems
… systems. It builds on the original insights of Veblen, Keynes and Schumpeter. The application of systems economics yields insights into current societal challenges. For example, an alternative description of the process of economic growth is laid out, which emphasises the importance of …
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Synergies and Trade-offs in Urban Green Infrastructure
Urban Green Infrastructure (UGI) is increasingly integrated into urban planning to tackle climate change, biodiversity loss, and public health challenges. Its multifunctionality and ability to deliver multiple Ecosystem Services (ESs) make UGI a "win-win" nature-based solution. Yet, focusing only …
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Synergies and Trade-offs in Urban Green Infrastructure
Urban Green Infrastructure (UGI) is increasingly integrated into urban planning to tackle climate change, biodiversity loss, and public health challenges. Its multifunctionality and ability to deliver multiple Ecosystem Services (ESs) make UGI a "win-win" nature-based solution. Yet, focusing only …
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The comparative political economy of working time
… 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 "working rich" …