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Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929)

Thorstein Bunde Veblen (30. juli 1857—3. august 1929) var ein norskamerikansk økonom og sosiolog. Han tok B.A.-graden ved Carleton College og Ph.D.-graden ved Yale University med tilleggsutdanning ved Cornell University og Johns Hopkins University. The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), eit tilsynelatande satirisk blikk på samfunnet i Sambandsstatane skrive medan han underviste ved University of Chicago, er det mest vidkjende verket hans. Han er kjend for å ha etablert dei mykje bruka omgrepa «iaugefallande forbruk» og «pekuniær emulering».

Thorstein Veblen's career began amidst the growth of the disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and psychology. He argued that economics was inevitably shaped by culture and that no universal "human nature" could possibly be invoked to explain the variety of norms and behaviors discovered by the new science of anthropology.

One of his most important analytical contributions was what came to be known as the "ceremonial / instrumental dichotomy". Veblen saw that although every society is dependent on tools and skills to support the "life process", every society also appeared to have a stratified structure of status ("invidious distinctions") that ran contrary to the imperatives of the "instrumental" (read: "technological") aspects of group life. This led rise to the dichotomy: the "ceremonial" was related to the past, supporting the tribal legends; "instrumental" was oriented toward the technological imperative to judge value by the ability to control future consequences. The "Veblenian dichotomy" was a specialized variant of the "instrumental theory of value" due to John Dewey, with whom Veblen was to make contact briefly at The University of Chicago.

"The Theory of the Leisure Class" and "The Theory of Business Enterprise" together constitute an alternative construction on the neoclassical marginalist theories of consumption and production, respectively. Both are clearly founded on the application of the "Veblenian dichotomy" to cultural patterns of behavior and are therefore implicitly but unavoidably bound to a critical stance; it is not possible to read Veblen with any understanding while failing to grasp that the dichotomy is a valuational principle at its core. The ceremonial patterns of activity are not bound to just any past, but rather to the one that generated a specific set of advantages and prejudices that underly the current structure of rewards and power. Instrumental judgments create benefits according to an entirely separate criterion, and therefore are inherently subversive. This line of analysis was more fully and explicitly developed by Clarence E. Ayres of the University of Texas from the 1920s. In addition to these two books, his monograph Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution and the essay entitled "Why Economics is not an Evolutionary Science" have been influential in shaping the research agenda for following generations of social scientists. His ideas were also inspirational to the technocratic movement.

In 1919, Veblen, along with Charles Beard, James Harvey Robinson and John Dewey, helped found the New School for Social Research, which is known today as New School University.

Veblen made his home in Nerstrand, Minnesota.

## [endre] Lenkjer ut

- Project Gutenberg e-tekst av The Theory of the Leisure Class
- E-tekstar -- The Veblenite -- (Complete Works, as far as not copyright protected, biography, bibliography and related materials)
- Books and Translations [1]
- Økonomiessay: [2]
- War Essays, Memoranda, Suggestions [3]
- Miscellaneous Papers, Reviews [4]
- Faksimile An inquiry into the nature of peace and the terms of its perpetuation ...
  - Utgjevar: New York, B.W. Huebsch, 1919
- Faksimile The place of science in modern civilisation and other essays
  - Utgjevar: New York, B.W. Huebsch, 1919
- Faksimile The Vested Interests and the Common Man ("The modern point of view and the new order").
  - Utgjevar: New York, B.W. Huebsch, 1919

- Othercanon: Biological Metaphor shift in Economics [5]

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