Dr. Veblen, I Presume?

Portrait illustration of Veblen in a Safari hat, presumably in the jungle.

Like the explorer Henry Stanley searching for Dr. Livingstone in the African jungle, I, too, have spent years searching for the real Thorstein Veblen. Veblen was a prominent American economist who lived from 1857 to 1929. Today, he is remembered only by a small tribe of academics, primarily economists of the Institutional and Evolutionary schools […]