The Theory of the Leisure Class made Veblen famous for his theory of consumption as a channel of social competition. The Institutionalists praised and used his notion of intangible property. This article will show that Veblen worked his way to the theory of consumption and property from the concept of labor. Veblen drew on a longstanding American literature that insisted on the dignity of labor and warned against its decline. But he was also familiar with the latest trends of German, Italian and French socialism in ways few Americans were at the time. This article will describe Veblen’s explorations of American and European sources, while emphasizing his reliance on authors (such as the Italian criminologist Antonio Ferri), whose influence on Veblen has been so far neglected.
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, United States
Titolo del capitolo
Donne, cannibali e la fatica del lavoro: l’etologia economica di T. Veblen
Autori
Francesca Lidia Viano
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.82
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
Curatori
Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
1894
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0245-9
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0319-7
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0320-3
Collana
Studi e saggi
ISSN della collana
2704-6478
e-ISSN della collana
2704-5919