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A Theory of Thorstein Veblen
- jgwil2 6y agoI'm always surprised this guy isn't more well known. If we're indeed living in a second Gilded Age, it's hard to imagine a writer more due for a renaissance.
- schoen 6y agoHe has a type of economic good named for him https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good -- one of several, but possibly only one of two named after an individual. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Types_of_goods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Types_of_goods
- notsureaboutpg 6y agoVeblen is well known to anyone who went to college and took a sociology course (he and C. Wright Mills)
- jorgenveisdal 6y agoHis son Oswald was a mathematicisn and one of the founders of the Institute for Advanced Study
- xbar 6y agoHe is due for a renaissance. He is well known but certainly under-read.