The term " absentee ownership " was popularised by economist Thorstein Veblen's book of the same name, Absentee ownership.

Veblen's house was often a mess, with unmade beds and dirty dishes ; his clothes were often in disarray ; he was an agnostic ; and he tended to be blunt and rude while dealing with other people .< ref > John Kenneth Galbraith, in the Introduction of

Besides cultural anthropology and its interest in games in the human culture, one of the first efforts to think about sports in more general way was Johan Huizinga's " Homo Ludens " or Thorstein Veblen's " Theory of the Leisure Class ".

< P > The occasion was that I was in my office waiting for the usual morning call to go into Veblen's office and talk.

Conspicuous leisure was another focus of Veblen's critique.

Veblen's methodology for analyzing economic developments is similar to that of scientific socialism and also contrast to neoclassical / classical political economy and utopian socialism ; he understood that society and economics was constantly evolving and that this process affected the fundamental basis of established social relations.

The Veblen and Bunde farmsteads were the homes of the parents of Thorstein Bunde Veblen's parents, from where they emigrated a year before the birth of their son.

" Thorstein Veblen's Views on American ' Exceptionalism ': An Interpretation.

Although published long before Babbitt in 1899, Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class, which critiqued consumer culture and social competition at the turn of the 19th to 20th century, is an oft-cited point of comparison.

Referring to Thorstein Veblen's assertion that economics unrealistically models people as " lightning calculator of pleasure and pain ", Friedman wrote,

* Thorstein Veblen's Web by Harrison Mujica-Jenkins at latephilosophers. com

Thorstein Veblen's 1915 Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution is an extended essay comparing the United Kingdom and Germany, and concluding that the slowing of growth in Britain, and the rapid advances in the latter, were due to the " penalty of taking the lead.

* Oswald Veblen, the mathematician ( and Thorstein Veblen's nephew )

Its original focus lay in Thorstein Veblen's instinct-oriented dichotomy between technology on the one side and the " ceremonial " sphere of society on the other.

Through the 1920s and after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 Thorstein Veblen's warnings of the tendency for wasteful consumption and the necessity of creating sound financial institutions seemed to ring true.

Sociologist and Economist Thorstein Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class illustrates how individuals imitate other group members of higher social status in their consumer behavior.

Thorstein Veblen's sociological classic The Theory of the Leisure Class ( 1899 ) assumed an evolutionary perspective and advanced a persuasive narrative concerning the elaboration of gesture and posture into a culturally encoded system of decorum and good manners.

Fresco's proposed economy removes the mechanics of modern economics and his view toward modern economics has been compared to Thorstein Veblen's concept of " the predatory phase in human development ," according to an article in the journal of Society and Business Review.

I stepped out my door and knocked on Veblen's door, and Veblen said come in and I went in.

Veblen's subject of examination, the newly emergent middle class arising at the turn of the twentieth century, comes to full fruition by the end of the twentieth century through the process of globalization.

* Veblen's axiom: If a, b, c, d are distinct points and the lines through ab and cd meet, then so do the lines through ac and bd.

* Hugh J. Dawson ( 1993 ) E. B. Tylor's Theory of Survivals and Veblen's Social Criticism Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol.

Mauss ' theory marked a departure from Veblen's in that he did not seek to frame the individual actor's actions within a cultural context ; instead, his theory focused on the overarching structural implementation of status boundaries.

Veblen's contemporary, popular historian Charles A.

Veblen's main argument concerned what he called leisure class, and it explicates the mechanism between taste, acquisition and consumption.

Around 1918, young Evelyn, armed with a letter from Veblen's divorced wife, went to Fremont Older seeking work.

'' and others concerning camp friends who resided in her suburban neighborhood,, and news of her commencing again her piano lessons, her private school, a visit to Boston to see her grandparents and an uncle who was a surgeon returned on furlough, wounded, from the war in Europe.

`` Uncle Sam '' was, indeed, a rich uncle to Prokofieff, in those opulent, post-war victory years of peace and prosperity, bold speculations and extravaganzas, enjoyment and pleasure: `` The Golden Twenties ''.

Lizzie stated during the inquest that while her father and uncle were in the sitting room the afternoon before the murders, she had been disturbed by their voices and had closed her door, even though it was a very hot day.

Her young British lawyer, James Dunlop, pleaded that she was sorely needed at her Portland home by her widowed mother, 80, her maiden aunt, also 80 and bedridden for 20 years, and her uncle, 76, who once ran a candy shop.

A 24-year-old Atlanta man was arrested Sunday after breaking into the home of relatives in search of his wife, hitting his uncle with a rock and assaulting two police officers who tried to subdue him, police said.

She promised that she would soon take a few day's leave and visit the uncle she had never seen, on the island of Oyajima -- which was not very far from Yokosuka.

When his uncle Tughril died he was succeeded by Suleiman, Alp Arslan's brother.

Abner spent his childhood in Auburn and later was sent to Cooperstown to live with his uncle and attend a private preparatory high school.

Albert was born at Ansbach and, having lost his father Casimir in 1527, he came under the guardianship of his uncle George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, a strong adherent of Protestantism.

Albert was chosen as his successor early in 1511 in the hope that his relationship to his maternal uncle, Sigismund I the Old, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, would facilitate a settlement of the disputes over eastern Prussia, which had been held by the Order under Polish suzerainty since the Second Peace of Thorn ( 1466 ).

Antonia Minor was the second daughter born to Octavia Minor and triumvir Mark Antony, hence Antonia ’ s maternal uncle was Augustus.

Germanicus was always favored by his great uncle and hoped that he would succeed Tiberius, who had been adopted by Augustus as his heir and successor.

Claudius was Agrippina's paternal uncle and third husband.

Germanicus was a favorite of his great-uncle Augustus, who hoped that Germanicus would succeed his uncle Tiberius, who was Augustus's own adopted son and heir.

Regardless, for Agrippina ’ s seduction, it was a help that she had the niece ’ s privilege of kissing and caressing her paternal uncle.

In Roman society, an uncle ( Claudius ) marrying his niece ( Agrippina ) was considered incestuous, and obviously immoral.

Silanus committed suicide on the day that Agrippina married her uncle, and Calvina was exiled from Italy in early 49.

Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus in 50 was adopted by his great maternal uncle and stepfather.

As the son of Neoptolemus I and brother of Olympias, Alexander I was an uncle of Alexander the Great.

According to the Suda, a 10th century encyclopedia, Alexis was the paternal uncle of the dramatist Menander and wrote 245 comedies, of which only fragments now survive, including some 130 preserved titles.

Born in Florence, in 1540, after the death of his father, he was brought up and trained in art by a close friend, often referred to as his ' uncle ', the mannerist painter Agnolo Bronzino, whose name he sometimes assumed in his pictures.

The situation became unstable and, in the following year, being led by what he afterwards discovered to be false representations, Afonso declared Peter a rebel and defeated his army in the Battle of Alfarrobeira, in which his uncle ( and father-in-law ) was killed.

Finished on April 24, 1459, it was sent to Portugal with a letter to Prince Henry the Navigator, Afonso's uncle, encouraging further funding of exploration trips.