Veblen had it right didn't he? patreon.com/posts/veblen-h…

My On Point review essay on Thorstein Veblen, John Maynard Keynes, and Albert Hirschman for Project Syndicate of 12 November asks: when is an economist more or less than an economist. project-syndicate.org/onpoint/veblen…

Why are we still in the rat race? Till van Treeck Uni Duisburg-Essen @unidue.bsky.social New School for Social Research shares his insightful research on how Conspicuous Consumption, Working Hours, and Veblen Effects impacts income inequality in Advanced Economies. Watch now: youtu.be/6W03DMQ7uxY👈

This is a good discussion of different types of industrial policy. jwmason.org/slackwire/vari…

Even IMF admits the inflation disaster is caused by corporations squeezing larger profits, who are using Ukraine as a convenient pretext for a massive wealth transfer from poor to rich. There has never been a stronger case for bringing these companies under democratic control!

Striking graph here by Emma Lewis. Children in immigrant households in France approximately as likely to live in poverty as children from native-born households in the US. And «Germany has seen the biggest fall in child poverty in immigrant households in the past 10 years».

Here is my article on rents and capitalist competition using Thorstein Veblen's approach. I systematize the different forms of rents, how capitalist competition endogenously creates them and its relationship with neoliberalism. ✊✊

ICYMI, my short piece on why we should take economic nationalism seriously and not dismiss it as a universally harmful anachronism project-syndicate.org/commentary/eas…

In this episode of BBC's "In Our Time" Mary Wrenn, Matthew Watson and Bill Waller discuss Thorstein Veblen's critique of capitalism buff.ly/3R5aBdM

Here is my essay "How the free market is failing" for Institute of Art and Ideas . I analyse, based on J. A. Schumpeter and T. Veblen, how capitalist competition in general, and neoliberalism in particular, creates and multiplies rents in society. iai.tv/articles/how-t…

Finally posted a paper I'm very proud of: NFTs as digital Veblen goods!

Is this part of a coordinated attack on academic freedom which targets high profile institutions (LSE, Harvard, MIT, etc) to achieve maximum visibility internationally, intimidation, & divert attention from huge number of civilian casualties in #Gaza? m.jpost.com/international/…

Thorstein Veblen "thought that his own society was an historical aberration, that it was the only society in history that had managed to turn people against the natural human disposition to cooperate" bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

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Article: Thorstein Veblen and Socialism, by Geoffrey M. Hodgson buff.ly/41PrxZr

Every crisis reveals the structure of the system through which it propagates. Gaza illuminates not just the nature of a violent imperial system and its unsteady hegemon, but also the rot within our institutions: the legal system, press, academy, intelligentsia, political class.

My speech at the G20 today — making the case for a coordinated minimum tax on the super-rich, and more broadly calling for new era of multilateralism, focused on rooting out the inequalities that can corrode democratic societies +some thoughts on the reactions... 1/n

not even close