T he social theorist and economist Thorstein Veblen, best remembered today for The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), was born in 1857 to a family of Wisconsin farmers who had emigrated from Norway.

A consequent of Thorstein Veblen's theory of 'invidious comparison' is investigated as it applies to class and status. This research evaluates specifically shifting socioeconomic effects within the ...

Elizabeth McKenzie's funny and lively novel, The Portable Veblen, centers on the engagement of Veblen (named after economist Thorstein Veblen) and Paul, their dysfunctional families, and one very ...

David Redshaw is surely wrong (Veblen intended to satirise the rich, Letters, March 14th) in claiming that Thorstein Veblen devised the term “conspicuous consumption” to satirise “the ludicrous and ...

The Veblen effect is named after American economist Thorstein Veblen, who wrote about conspicuous (which means visible) consumption; it means spending of money on luxury goods and services to display ...

Reinert, Sophus A. "Capitalizing Expectations: Veblen on Consumption, Crises, and the Utility of Waste." Chap. 16 in Thorstein Veblen: Economics for an Age of Crises, edited by Erik S. Reinert and ...

Thorstein Veblen, 1902. Photo courtesy George Eastman Museum archives. On a quiet stretch of country road in rural Rice County there sits a perfectly preserved farmhouse in which one of the great ...