1857 - 1929
Thorstein Bunde Veblen (July 30, 1857 – August 3, 1929) was a Norwegian-American economist and sociologist who, during his lifetime, emerged as a well-known critic of capitalism. In his best-known book, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), Veblen coined the concepts of conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure. Historians of economics regard Veblen as the founding father of the institutional economics school. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thorstein Veblen has received more than 1,116,605 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Thorstein Veblen is the 41st most popular economist (up from 45th in 2019), the 553rd most popular biography from United States (up from 678th in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Economist.
Thorstein Veblen is most famous for his book The Theory of the Leisure Class, which examines the social and economic aspects of society.
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Among economists, Thorstein Veblen ranks 41 out of 315. Before him are Léon Walras, Karl Polanyi, Benjamin Graham, Elinor Ostrom, Wassily Leontief, and Ragnar Frisch. After him are Friedrich List, Gary Becker, Jacques Attali, Jan Tinbergen, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and Frédéric Bastiat.
1834 - 1910
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 35
1886 - 1964
HPI: 66.95
Rank: 36
1894 - 1976
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 37
1933 - 2012
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 38
1906 - 1999
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 39
1895 - 1973
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 40
1857 - 1929
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 41
1789 - 1846
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 42
1930 - 2014
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 43
1943 - Present
HPI: 65.65
Rank: 44
1903 - 1994
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 45
1949 - Present
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 46
1801 - 1850
HPI: 65.17
Rank: 47
Among people born in 1857, Thorstein Veblen ranks 19. Before him are Alfonso XII of Spain, Alfred Binet, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Eugen Bleuler, Alexander of Battenberg, and Theo van Gogh. After him are Ronald Ross, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, Axel Munthe, Andrija Mohorovičić, and Paul Doumer. Among people deceased in 1929, Thorstein Veblen ranks 12. Before him are Bernhard von Bülow, Emile Berliner, Sergei Diaghilev, Wilhelm Maybach, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Prince Maximilian of Baden. After him are Aby Warburg, Habibullāh Kalakāni, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Otto Liman von Sanders, Émile Loubet, and Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia.
1857 - 1885
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 13
1857 - 1911
HPI: 69.63
Rank: 14
1857 - 1919
HPI: 69.00
Rank: 15
1857 - 1939
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 16
1857 - 1893
HPI: 66.49
Rank: 17
1857 - 1891
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 18
1857 - 1929
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 19
1857 - 1932
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 20
1857 - 1940
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 21
1857 - 1905
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 22
1857 - 1949
HPI: 64.29
Rank: 23
1857 - 1936
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 24
1857 - 1932
HPI: 64.21
Rank: 25
1849 - 1929
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 6
1851 - 1929
HPI: 66.44
Rank: 7
1872 - 1929
HPI: 66.34
Rank: 8
1846 - 1929
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 9
1874 - 1929
HPI: 66.11
Rank: 10
1867 - 1929
HPI: 65.98
Rank: 11
1857 - 1929
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 12
1866 - 1929
HPI: 65.86
Rank: 13
1890 - 1929
HPI: 65.77
Rank: 14
1865 - 1929
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 15
1855 - 1929
HPI: 64.55
Rank: 16
1838 - 1929
HPI: 63.95
Rank: 17
1856 - 1929
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 18
Among people born in United States, Thorstein Veblen ranks 553 out of 18,182. Before him are Anthony Perkins (1932), Francis Fukuyama (1952), James Caan (1940), Margaret Keane (1927), Ernest Lawrence (1901), and Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875). After him are Joseph Barbera (1911), Washington Irving (1783), Eugene O'Neill (1888), Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839), Dean Martin (1917), and Farrah Fawcett (1947).
1932 - 1992
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 547
1952 - Present
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 548
1940 - Present
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 549
1927 - Present
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 550
1901 - 1958
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 551
1875 - 1950
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 552
1857 - 1929
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 553
1911 - 2006
HPI: 65.88
Rank: 554
1783 - 1859
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 555
1888 - 1953
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 556
1839 - 1903
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 557
1917 - 1995
HPI: 65.83
Rank: 558
1947 - 2009
HPI: 65.80
Rank: 559
Among economists born in United States, Thorstein Veblen ranks 8. Before him are Philip Kotler (1931), Paul Samuelson (1915), Michael Porter (1947), Joseph Stiglitz (1943), Herbert A. Simon (1916), and Elinor Ostrom (1933). After him are Gary Becker (1930), Douglass North (1920), Kenneth Arrow (1921), W. Edwards Deming (1900), Irving Fisher (1867), and Robert Solow (1924).
1931 - Present
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 2
1915 - 2009
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 3
1947 - Present
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 4
1943 - Present
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 5
1916 - 2001
HPI: 68.42
Rank: 6
1933 - 2012
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 7
1857 - 1929
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 8
1930 - 2014
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 9
1920 - 2015
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 10
1921 - 2017
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 11
1900 - 1993
HPI: 64.12
Rank: 12
1867 - 1947
HPI: 64.09
Rank: 13
1924 - Present
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 14