If Apple is indeed a Veblen brand (or more accurately, the goods produced by Apple are Veblen Goods) then why not try to raise the price of the next iPhone by $100? For the increase in price might ...

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.

In 2012 a conference was held on Thorstein Veblen in Istanbul. It was sponsored by a socialist labor union, the Chamber of Electrical Engineers. We were asked why not focus on Marx? My answer was that ...

An important book has just been published from a 2012 conference in Istanbul on Thorstein Veblen: Absentee Ownership and its Discontents, edited by Michael Hudson and Ahmet Öncü. It is published by ...

Squirrels, a reluctant bride, a dead economist and the military-industrial complex: These elements may seem unlikely to add up to a refreshing, life-affirming and funny novel that’s climbing 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 ...

Elizabeth McKenzie's clever, romantic comedy broadcasts quirkiness right on its cover, with its potentially off-putting title and its illustration of a squirrel instead of the interlocked wedding ...

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 ...

J ust over a century ago, the same year that the Spanish flu struck millions around the world, the American sociologist Thorstein Veblen diagnosed a malady of a different sort: the control of ...