Woody Guthrie proudly sang “This land is your land, this land is my land / From California to the New York island,” but, in ...

Woody Guthrie proudly sang “This land is your land, this land is my land / FromCalifornia to the New York island,” but, in ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Thorstein Veblen's The Higher Learning in America is back in a new edition. Scott McLemee revisits a scathing classic. Probably the best-known fact about The Higher Learning in America by Thorstein ...

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 ...