Thorstein Veblen: Elitist as Populist

Tributes ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 307-310
Author(s):  
Irving Louis Horowitz
Keyword(s):  
Thorstein Veblen

Thorstein Veblen: A View from the 21st Century

2007 ◽  
pp. 73-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Nureev
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Institutional Economics ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
Thorstein Veblen ◽  
History Of

The article provides a description of T. Veblen’s views, showing his place in the history of economic thought. The author analyzes the context of Veblen’s life and work and considers different aspects of his theoretical legacy. Special attention is paid to the discussion of Veblen’s role in the development of institutional economics. The author describes in detail the main trends in the development of institutionalism after Veblen.

Impacto de la ImperIal Germany de Veblen en los enfoques estructuralistas y de la teoría de la dependencia

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (194) ◽  
Author(s):  
William Baca
Keyword(s):  
Thorstein Veblen ◽  
Imperial Germany

<em><em></em></em>El presente artículo identifica puntos en común y diferencias entre el estructuralismo latinoamericano, la teoría de la dependencia y el texto Imperial Germany (1915) de Thorstein Veblen. Se explora la conexión en aspectos tales como dependencia en el sendero, tecnología y política económica. Imperial Germany se asemeja a varias de las principales recomendaciones de políticas de los estructuralistas y teóricos de la dependencia. Empero, el estructuralismo está más cercano a las ideas de los institucionalistas y del mismo Veblen. En conclusión, estructuralistas y la versión de Veblen en Imperial Germany concuerdan en que una política industrial debe ser guiada por el gobierno, aunque  Veblen y los institucionalistas claramente presentan el cambio social mediante mejoras tecnológicas, algo que el estructuralismo no describe.

scholarly journals Thorstein Veblen on economic man: toward a new method of describing human nature, society, and history

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noriko Ishida
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Traditional Theory ◽  
Characteristic Method ◽  
Classical Concept ◽  
Qualitative Aspect ◽  
Thorstein Veblen ◽  
Economic Action ◽  
Economic Man ◽  
Logical Connection ◽  
Theory Of Human Nature

AbstractThe fact that Veblen was a keen critic of the neo-classical concept of “economic man” is well known. However, the following issues have not been discussed in enough depth: how he rebuilt the traditional theory of human nature through his new methodology of economics, how much his methodological revision broadened the scope of economics, and what kind of phenomena Veblen’s economic theory elucidates. This article examines these issues and aims to show the logical connection between Veblen’s controversial proposal on the methodology of economics and his analysis of economic phenomena. Specifically, it reconsiders Veblen’s analysis of economic action using a unique concept of instincts, his logic of explaining the relation between society and human nature, his way of drawing history from the relativistic worldview, and his characteristic method of grasping the cause and effect of economic phenomena. Finally, it highlights the importance of modifying the concept of “economic man” by focusing on the qualitative aspect. Particular reference is made to the economic concepts of utility, efficiency, and intangibility.

Sex and Evolution in Willa Cather'sO Pioneers!andThe Song of the Lark

Prospects ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 565-591
Author(s):  
Bert Bender
Keyword(s):  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Willa Cather ◽  
Thorstein Veblen ◽  
Professor's House ◽  
Song Of The Lark

Studies of Willa Cather refer to Charles Darwin so rarely that one might conclude she hardly knew of him. But at least one recent interpreter has begun to discuss the Darwinian shadow in her work, describing the “Darwinist cartography” in her novelThe Professor's House(1925) and noting the “striking parallels between Cather's mapping of America and that undertaken by her near contemporary, Thorstein Veblen.”

WHY ECONOMICS IS AN EVOLUTIONARY, MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE: HOW COULD VEBLEN’S VIEW OF ECONOMICS HAVE BEEN SO DIFFERENT THAN PEIRCE’S?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
James R. Wible
Keyword(s):  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Charles Sanders Peirce ◽  
Quarterly Journal ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Neoclassical Economics ◽  
Mathematical Science ◽  
Evolutionary Perspective ◽  
Thorstein Veblen ◽  
Evolutionary Science ◽  
Mechanistic View

More than a century ago, one of the most famous essays ever written in American economics appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Economics: “Why is Economics Not an Evolutionary Science?” There, Thorstein Veblen claimed that economics was too dominated by a mechanistic view to address the problems of economic life. Since the world and the economy had come to be viewed from an evolutionary perspective after Charles Darwin, it was rather straightforward to argue that the increasingly abstract mathematical character of economics was non-evolutionary. However, Veblen had studied with a first-rate intellect, Charles Sanders Peirce, attending his elementary logic class. If Peirce had written about the future of economics in 1898, it would have been very different than Veblen’s essay. Peirce could have written that economics should become an evolutionary mathematical science and that much of classical and neoclassical economics could be interpreted from an evolutionary perspective.

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