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28 Jul 2016, 8:45 am
Lynne Pepall and Joseph Reiff analyze The "Veblen" Effect, Targeted Advertising and Consumer Welfare. [read post]
6 Feb 2018, 12:05 am
Campos (Colorado), The Extraordinary Rise and Sudden Decline of Law School Tuition: A Case Study of Veblen Effects in Higher Education, 48 Seton Hall L. [read post]
16 Aug 2010, 12:18 am
Veblen West is an affiliate of Veblen East but the bankruptcy cases are not being jointly administered. [read post]
24 Mar 2007, 8:03 am
Writing in yesterday's Wall Street Journal, Joe Rago notes the updated version of Veblen's concept of conspicuous consumption--"conspicuous virtue":... [read post]
20 Jan 2008, 4:39 am
From Wikipedia: In the book, Veblen argues that economic life is driven not by notions of utility, but by social vestiges from pre-historic times. [read post]
7 May 2012, 6:46 pm
Sheff, Veblen Brands, 96 Minn. [read post]
18 Jun 2008, 11:45 pm
In her book The Substance of Style, Postrel seemed eager to discredit Veblen-inspired thought by claiming that it failed to "credit [luxury] goods' intrinsic sensory appeal. [read post]
9 Feb 2018, 10:30 am
Campos (Colorado), The Extraordinary Rise and Sudden Decline of Law School Tuition: A Case Study of Veblen Effects in Higher Education, 48 Seton Hall L. [read post]
18 May 2018, 5:34 pm
Educated at Washington and Lee University and Yale, Wolfe held a doctorate in American studies and could reference Weber, Veblen, Durkheim, Nietzsche, and Darwin with the best of them. [read post]
26 Feb 2014, 2:24 pm
[South Florida Lawyers] * Is law school a Veblen good? [read post]
23 Sep 2014, 1:09 pm
Here's an eye-opening chart that maps public perceptions of various professions on a scatter plot of perceived competence vs. perceived warmth/trustworthiness. [read post]
7 Jan 2009, 5:28 pm
Not necessarily, of course - but if your pricing model skews toward Veblen-prestige goods pricing, you skew your information gathering away from the Very Great Reporter Gretchen Morgenson of the business pages and toward the not-so-great Magazine Opinion Writer William Glaberson, and finally you give it up altogether for the Online Nurse Judith Warner. [read post]
7 Jan 2009, 5:38 pm
This is a long essay, put up in four successive posts, on the business model of the New York Times and how it can be seen to follow certain parts of Veblen's theory of the leisure class. [read post]
4 Aug 2015, 6:07 am
It’s the theory first elaborated by the social philosopher Thorstein Veblen: planned obsolescence. [read post]
ENVIRONMENTALISM AND THE LEISURE CLASS: “In turning down Keystone, however, the President has uncov…
20 Jan 2012, 11:20 am
Veblen posed the question, why is it that people who are the greatest beneficiaries of industrial society are often the most passionate in condemning it? [read post]
1 Oct 2009, 12:36 am
Well that's depressing...Thorstein Veblen made this point a hundred years ago in The Theory of the Leisure Class. [read post]
23 Dec 2013, 10:39 pm
Only back then, elites gave their servants a better deal.Thorstein Veblen, in his classic 1899 book, “The Theory of the Leisure Class,” observed that “the need of vicarious leisure, or conspicuous consumption of service, is a dominant incentive to the keeping of servants. [read post]
14 Nov 2006, 6:20 pm
But as Veblen himself realized, this is an inquiry that has to share in both economic and humanistic approaches. [read post]
15 May 2011, 7:47 am
Here is what Veblen didn’t say: It is so much easier to signal than to make progress. [read post]
20 Dec 2011, 1:50 pm
Which brings me back to Veblen again. [read post]
