Thorstein Veblen

At the end of the 19th century, a sociologist called Thorstein Veblen wrote his book The Theory of the Leisure Class to present his interpretation for why this luxury behavior exists.

Luxist Deidre Woollard 2010

At the end of the 19th century, a sociologist called Thorstein Veblen wrote his book The Theory of the Leisure Class to present his interpretation for why this luxury behavior exists.

Luxist Deidre Woollard 2010

At the end of the 19th century, a sociologist called Thorstein Veblen wrote his book The Theory of the Leisure Class to present his interpretation for why this luxury behavior exists.

Luxist Deidre Woollard 2010

Since at least the 1930s economists and sociologists such as Thorstein Veblen, A.olf Berle and Gardiner Means, R.A. Gordon, Carl Kaysen, John Kenneth Galbraith, William Baumol, Robin Marris and Oliver Williamson have argued that the growing separation of corporate ownership and control permitted non-owner managers of A.erican corporations to sacrifice profit and efficiency to other goals, for example their personal security and aggrandizement.

Junk-Bond Finance Alcaly, Roger E. 1987

Thorstein Veblen produced the most influential progressive critique of consumption in a series of books and articles, most notably the scholarly classic The Theory of the Leisure Class 1899.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Thorstein Veblen said that law schools belonged in the academy no more than schools of dancing or fencing, because their practical, vocational training detracted from the enterprise of intellectual discovery.

The Law Is a Class John O. McGinnis 2011

Writing in 1904, Thorstein Veblen gave an apt analysis: "What is not competently standardized calls for too much of craftsmanlike skill, reflection, and individual elaboration, and is therefore not available for economical use."

So We're All in Agreement Evgeny Morozov 2012

Last week, at a state park on the Susquehanna River, Rick Santorum was seen lost in thought as he delved into Thorstein Veblen's 1899 classic "Theory of the Leisure Class."

Beach Reading for Would-Be Presidents Joe Queenan 2011

“Let's put it this way,” I said with a look that Thorstein Veblen characterized as the“physiognomy of astuteness.”

Fun With Death at the Funeral Directors Convention Con Chapman 2011

In thrall of American progressivism, the 28th president enlisted the most celebrated minds of the era -- Walter Lippman, Thorstein Veblen and Frederick Jackson Turner, among others -- to craft a global constitution that would usher in a "scientific peace" to follow the Great War.

Review of Peter Beinart's 'The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris' Carlos Lozada 2010