Principal figura de la escuela del Institucionalismo Americano, Thorstein Bunde Veblen fue un filósofo, sociólogo y economista altamente controvertido.
Nació en Wisconsin de padres de origen noruego. Estudia en el Carleton College y las universidades John Hopkins, Cornell y Yale, en la que obtiene el doctorado en 1884. Veblen trabaja en las universidades de Chicago (de donde será expulsado por mantener relaciones sexuales con alumnas), Stanford (de la que le fuerzan a irse por su actitud crítica hacia los hombres de negocio) y Missouri, sin que en ningún caso puede superar el nivel de profesor auxiliar. Fuertemente crítico con el "stablishment", fue elegido, sin embargo por sus colegas de profesión para la presidencia de la American Economic Association.
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"Kant's Critique of Judgement", 1884, Journal of Speculative Philosophy
"Some Neglected Points in the Theory of Socialism", 1891, Annals of AAPSS
"Bohm-Bawerk's Definition of Capital and the Source of Wages" , 1892, QJE.
"The Overproduction Fallacy", 1892, QJE
"The Food Supply and the Price of Wheat", 1893, JPE
"The Army of the Commonweal", 1894, JPE
"The Economic Theory of Women's Dress", 1894, Popular Science Monthly
"Review of Karl Marx's Poverty of Philosophy", 1896, JPE
"Review of Werner Sombart's Socializmus", 1897, JPE
"Review of Gustav Schmoller's Uber einige Grundfragen der Socialpolitik", 1898, JPE
"Review of Turgot's Reflections", 1898, JPE
"Why is Economics Not an Evolutionary Science?" , 1898, QJE.
"The Beginnings of Ownership" , 1898, American Journal of Sociology .
"The Instinct of Workmanship and the Irksomeness of Labor" , 1898, American Journal of Sociology . (copy)
"The Barbarian Status of Women" , 1898, American Journal of Sociology .
The Theory of the Leisure Class: an economic study of institutions, 1899 - Copy (1) ; (2)
"The Preconceptions of Economic Science", Part 1 (1899),Part 2 (1899) , Part 3 (1900), QJE;
"Industrial and Pecuniary Employments", 1901, Publications of the AEA
"Gustav Schmoller's Economics", 1901, QJE
"Arts and Crafts", 1902, JPE
"Review of Werner Sombart's Der moderne Kapitalismus", 1903, JPE
"Review of J.A. Hobson's Imperialism", 1903, JPE
"An Early Experiment in Trusts", 1904, JPE
"Review of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations", 1904, JPE
Theory of Business Enterprise , 1904 - Copy (1), (2)
"Credit and Prices", 1905, JPE
"The Place of Science in Modern Civilization", 1906, American J of Sociology
"Professor Clark's Economics", 1906, QJE
"The Socialist Economics of Karl Marx and His Followers", Part 1 (1906), Part 2 (1907), QJE
"Fisher's Capital and Income" , 1907, Political Science Quarterly .
"The Evolution of the Scientific Point of View", 1908, University of California Chronicle
"On the Nature of Capital", 1908, QJE
"Fisher's Rate of Interest" , 1909, Political Science Quarterly .
"The Limitations of Marginal Utility" , 1909, JPE.
"Christian Morals and the Competitive System", 1910, International J of Ethics
"The Mutation Theory and the Blond Race", 1913, Journal of Race Development
"The Blond Race and the Aryan Culture", 1913, Univ of Missouri Bulletin
The Instincts of Worksmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts, 1914.
"The Opportunity of Japan", 1915, J of Race Development
Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution, 1915.
An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of its Perpetuation, 1917.
"On the General Principles of a Policy of Reconstruction", 1918, J of the National Institute of Social Sciences
"Passing of National Frontiers", 1918, Dial
"Menial Servants during the Period of War", 1918, Public
"Farm Labor for the Period of War", 1918, Public
"The War and Higher Learning", 1918, Dial
"The Modern Point of View and the New Order", 1918, Dial
The Higher Learning In America: A Memorandum On the Conduct of Universities By Business Men , 1918 - (1) .
The Vested Interests and the Common Man , 1919
"The Intellectual Pre-Eminence of Jews in Modern Europe", 1919, Political Science Quart
"On the Nature and Uses of Sabotage", 1919, Dial
"Bolshevism is a Menace to the Vested Interests", 1919, Dial
"Peace", 1919, Dial
"The Captains of Finance and the Engineers", 1919, Dial
"The Industrial System and the Captains of Industry", 1919, Dial
The Place of Science in Modern Civilization and other essays, 1919.
"Review of J.M.Keynes's Economic Consequences of the Peace , 1920, Political Science Quarterly
The Engineers and the Price System, 1921. (PDF version)
Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times: the case of America, 1923.
"Economic theory in the Calculable Future", 1925, AER
Essays in Our Changing Order, 1927.