The Vested Interests and the Common Man

The Vested Interests and the Common Man

by Thorstein Veblen
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2014 Reprint of 1946 Edition.

Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software.

Many of the essays in this collection originally appeared in "Dial" from October 1918 to January 1919.

"The Vested Interest" includes:.

Format
192 pages, paperback
First published
May 23, 2014
Publishers
Martino Fine Books

Thorstein Veblen

About Thorstein Veblen

Thorstein (born 'Torsten') Bunde Veblen was a Norwegian-American economist and sociologist. He was famous as a witty critic of capitalism.Veblen is famous for the idea of "conspicuous consumption". Conspicuous consumption, along with "conspicuous leisure", is performed to demonstrate wealth or mark social status. Veblen explains the concept in his best-known book, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899). Within the history of economic thought, Veblen is considered the leader of the institutional economics movement. Veblen's distinction between "institutions" and "technology" is still called the Veblenian dichotomy by contemporary economists.As a leading intellectual of the Progressive Era, Veblen attacked production for profit. His emphasis on conspicuous consumption greatly influenced the socialist thinkers who sought a non-Marxist critique of capitalism....

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