Thorstein Veblen, Iconoclastic Economist

Marc-André Gagnon () and Dimitri Della Faille ()
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Marc-André Gagnon: Carleton University
Dimitri Della Faille: Département des sciences sociales, Université du Québec en Outaouais

European Journal of Economic and Social Systems, 2014, vol. 26, issue 1-2, 11-30

Abstract: This article offers a presentation of the works by Thorstein Veblen, as well as some biographical elements. After a brief presentation of Veblen’s main intellectual influences and after presenting the author’s context of an America dominated by robber-barons at the turn of the XXth Century, this article presents his theory of socio-economic evolution based on a Darwinian perspective, his theory of the elite and of the leisure class, his theory of capital as means of predation and, finally, discusses the heritage Thorstein Veblen left in social sciences.

Keywords: Thorstein Veblen; institutions; leisure class; economic evolution; property; capital; predation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B00 B15 B52 E02 E21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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