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Thorstein Veblen
Thorstein Bunde Veblen was an American economist and sociologist who, during his lifetime, emerged as a well-known critic of capitalism. In his best-known book, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), Veblen coined the concepts of conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure. Veblen laid the foundation for the perspective of institutional economics. Contemporary economists still theorize Veblen…
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culture · American economist and sociologist (1857–1929) · economist · sociologist · writer · professor · philosopher · social scientist · docent · editor · also Thorstein Veblen, Veblen
Born 30 July 1857 · Died 3 August 1929 · Q73646
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 2 entries
Investopedia: Thorstein Veblen: Economist, Conspicuous Consumption, and Legacy
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Foreign Policy: Heterodox Economists: Thorstein Veblen
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2020· 2 entries
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Thorstein Veblen and the Myth of the Academic Outsider
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Published “Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers” in Journal of Ecology — cited 621 times.
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2019· 2 entries
Published “Wildfires and climate change push low-elevation forests across a critical climate threshold for tree regeneration” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences — cited 452 times.
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Published “Climate, Environment, and Disturbance History Govern Resilience of Western North American Forests” in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution — cited 285 times.
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2018· 1 entry
Published “Competition and coexistence in plant communities: intraspecific competition is stronger than interspecific competition” in Ecology Letters — cited 504 times.
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2017· 1 entry
Published “Evidence for declining forest resilience to wildfires under climate change” in Ecology Letters — cited 625 times.
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2009· 1 entry
Published “Widespread Increase of Tree Mortality Rates in the Western United States” in Science — cited 1,470 times.
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2004· 1 entry
Published “The Interaction of Fire, Fuels, and Climate across Rocky Mountain Forests” in BioScience — cited 591 times.
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1994· 1 entry
Published “Disturbance Regime and Disturbance Interactions in a Rocky Mountain Subalpine Forest” in The Journal of Ecology — cited 283 times.
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1988· 2 entries
Published “100-K superconducting phases in the Tl-Ca-Ba-Cu-O system” in Physical Review Letters — cited 378 times.
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Published “Superconductivity in the high-<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mi>T</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mi>c</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:msub></mml:mrow></mml:math>Bi-Ca-Sr-Cu-O system: Phase identification” in Physical Review Letters — cited 541 times.
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1929· 1 entry
Died 1929-08-03.
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1926· 1 entry
It was revealed that she had asked for her autopsy to be sent to Veblen, her ex-husband
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1920· 1 entry
Veblen became active in the care of his stepdaughters
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1919· 1 entry
It emerged from American modernism, progressivism, and the democratic education movement
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1914· 3 entries
And became stepfather to her two daughters, Becky and Ann
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In The Instinct of Workmanship and the Industrial Arts
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Did publish another of his best-known books, The Instincts of Worksmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts (1914)
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1911· 1 entry
Others have speculated that the relationship's demise was rooted in Ellen's inability to bear children
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1909· 1 entry
Veblen was ridiculed again for being a womanizer and an unfaithful husband
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1906· 2 entries
“The Place of Science in Modern Civilization”
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“The Place of Science in Modern Civilization.”
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1899· 1 entry
Veblen published his first and best-known book, titled The Theory of the Leisure Class
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1898· 2 entries
Published “Why is Economics not an Evolutionary Science?” in The Quarterly Journal of Economics — cited 1,001 times.
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“Why is economics not an evolutionary science?”
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1891· 1 entry
Veblen left the farm to return to graduate school to study economics at Cornell University under the guidance of economics professor James Laurence Laughlin
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1884· 6 entries
Awarded John Addison Porter Prize (1884).
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Veblen wrote the first English-language study of Kant's third Critique, his Kant's Critique of Judgment, published in the July 1884 issue of the Journal of Speculative Philosophy
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With a major in philosophy and a minor in social studies
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Veblen was essentially unemployed for seven years
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“Ethical Grounds of a Doctrine of Retribution”
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Studied at Yale University, Doctor of Philosophy (1884).
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1880· 2 entries
Studied at Carleton College, Bachelor of Arts (1880).
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Traveled east to study philosophy at Johns Hopkins University
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1874· 1 entry
Veblen was sent to attend nearby Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota
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1857· 2 entries
Born 1857-07-30.
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In Cato, Wisconsin, to Norwegian-American immigrant parents, Thomas Veblen and Kari Bunde
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1847· 1 entry
With few funds and no knowledge of English
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