In Our Time: History
BBC Radio 4
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most influential work of Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929). In 1899, during America’s Gilded Age, Veblen wrote The Theory of the Leisure Class as a reminder that all that glisters is not gold. He picked on traits of the waning landed class of Americans and showed how the new moneyed class was adopting these in ways that led to greater waste throughout society. He called these conspicuous leisure and conspicuous consumption and he developed a critique of a system that favoured profits for owners without regard to social good. The Theory of the Leisure Class was a best seller and funded Veblen for the rest of his life, and his ideas influenced the New Deal of the 1930s. Since then, an item that becomes more desirable as it becomes more expensive is known as a Veblen good.
With
Matthew Watson Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick
Bill Waller Professor of Economics at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, New York
And
Mary Wrenn Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of the West of England
Producer: Simon Tillotson
Reading list:
Charles Camic, Veblen: The Making of an Economist who Unmade Economics (Harvard University Press, 2021)
John P. Diggins, Thorstein Veblen: Theorist of the Leisure Class (Princeton University Press, 1999)
John P. Diggins, The Bard of Savagery: Thorstein Veblen and Modern Social Theory (Seabury Press, 1978)
John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (Penguin, 1999) Robert Heilbroner, The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers (Penguin, 2000), particularly the chapter ‘The Savage Society of Thorstein Veblen’
Ken McCormick, Veblen in Plain English: A Complete Introduction to Thorstein Veblen’s Economics (Cambria Press, 2006)
Sidney Plotkin and Rick Tilman, The Political Ideas of Thorstein Veblen (Yale University Press, 2012)
Juliet B. Schor, The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need (William Morrow & Company, 1999)
Juliet B. Schor, Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture (Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2005)
Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class (first published 1899; Oxford University Press, 2009)
Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of Business Enterprise (first published 1904; Legare Street Press, 2022)
Thorstein Veblen, The Higher Learning in America (first published 2018; Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015)
Thorstein Veblen, Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times: The Case of America (first published 1923; Routledge, 2017)
Thorstein Veblen, Conspicuous Consumption (Penguin, 2005)
Thorstein Veblen, The Complete Works (Musaicum Books, 2017)
Charles J. Whalen (ed.), Institutional Economics: Perspective and Methods in Pursuit of a Better World (Routledge, 2021)
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346 - The Barbary Corsairs Thu, 07 Dec 2023
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345 - The Federalist Papers Thu, 09 Nov 2023
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344 - The Economic Consequences of the Peace Thu, 26 Oct 2023
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343 - Louis XIV: The Sun King Thu, 22 Jun 2023
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342 - The Shimabara Rebellion Thu, 08 Jun 2023
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341 - The Battle of Crécy Thu, 11 May 2023
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340 - Cnut Thu, 04 May 2023
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339 - Mercantilism Thu, 13 Apr 2023
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338 - Megaliths Thu, 30 Mar 2023
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337 - Chartism Thu, 09 Mar 2023
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336 - Tycho Brahe Thu, 02 Mar 2023
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335 - The Great Stink Thu, 26 Jan 2023
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334 - The Irish Rebellion of 1798 Thu, 05 Jan 2023
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333 - Demosthenes' Philippics Thu, 15 Dec 2022
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332 - The Morant Bay Rebellion Thu, 01 Dec 2022
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331 - The Knights Templar Thu, 03 Nov 2022
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330 - Angkor Wat Thu, 21 Jul 2022
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329 - Comenius Thu, 16 Jun 2022
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328 - The Davidian Revolution Thu, 02 Jun 2022
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327 - Olympe de Gouges Thu, 19 May 2022
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326 - Homo erectus Thu, 12 May 2022
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325 - The Arthashastra Thu, 31 Mar 2022
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324 - In Our Time is now first on BBC Sounds Fri, 04 Mar 2022
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323 - Peter Kropotkin Thu, 24 Feb 2022
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322 - The Temperance Movement Thu, 03 Feb 2022
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321 - The Gold Standard Thu, 20 Jan 2022
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320 - The Hittites Thu, 23 Dec 2021
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319 - The May Fourth Movement Thu, 09 Dec 2021
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318 - The Battle of Trafalgar Thu, 02 Dec 2021
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317 - The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Thu, 14 Oct 2021
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316 - The Manhattan Project Thu, 07 Oct 2021
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315 - Herodotus Thu, 23 Sep 2021
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314 - Edward Gibbon Thu, 17 Jun 2021
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313 - Booth's Life and Labour Survey Thu, 10 Jun 2021
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312 - The Interregnum Thu, 27 May 2021
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311 - The Second Barons' War Thu, 06 May 2021
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310 - Ovid Thu, 29 Apr 2021
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309 - The Franco-American Alliance 1778 Thu, 22 Apr 2021
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308 - Pierre-Simon Laplace Thu, 08 Apr 2021
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307 - The Russo-Japanese War Thu, 01 Apr 2021
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306 - David Ricardo Thu, 25 Mar 2021
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305 - Marcus Aurelius Thu, 25 Feb 2021
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304 - The Plague of Justinian Thu, 21 Jan 2021
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303 - The Cultural Revolution Thu, 17 Dec 2020
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302 - The Zong Massacre Thu, 26 Nov 2020
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301 - Maria Theresa Thu, 22 Oct 2020
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300 - Cave Art Thu, 24 Sep 2020
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299 - Pericles Thu, 17 Sep 2020
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298 - The Covenanters Thu, 12 Mar 2020