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5 de jun. de 2024 · This chapter takes up Thorstein Veblen’s theories of the leisure class, conspicuous consumption, conspicuous leisure, pecuniary culture and evolution. Veblen was a strong critic of neoclassical economics, its equilibrium methodology and its teleological...
7 de jun. de 2024 · Veblen addressed how in all eras since the rise of barbarism, predatory elites gained ‘something for nothing’ by impoverishing workers they exploited, first by physical force and then through pecuniary institutions.
12 de jun. de 2024 · Legendary novelist John Dos Passos tells the story of economist Thorstein Veblen, the outspoken Progressive Era critic of capitalism who coined the phrase “conspicuous consumption.”
9 de jun. de 2024 · Eight are translations of unpublished works into Portuguese. They include classic texts by Thorstein Veblen, John R. Commons, Walton Hamilton and K. William Kapp, and contemporary and influential texts by Geoffrey Hodgson, Walter Neale and Anne Mayhew.
4 de jun. de 2024 · The author shows how this diverse group of thinkers are linked by their thinking on the future role of capitalism in society and fleshes out the influences informing each economist’s work.
10 de jun. de 2024 · The popularity of instinct theory—the core of Thorstein Veblen’s evolutionary methodology—waned with the rise of behavioral psychology in the 1920s, and resurges with the revival of evolutionary psychology in the 1980s. This study reexamines Charles Darwin’s theories of natural and sexual selection within Veblen’s theory.
4 de jun. de 2024 · With chapters dedicated to Karl Marx, Joseph Schumpeter, Thorstein Veblen, Henry George, Gunnar Myrdal, Alfred Marshall, Allyn Young, J. M. Keynes and Amartya Sen, the book aims to analyse contrasting views on the future of capitalism in historical perspective and make a critical assessment of their insights in contemporary contexts.
