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 1,031,286 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia. Thorstein Veblen is the 45th most popular economist (up from 47th in 2019), the 678th most popular biography from United States (down from 656th in 2019) and the 10th 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 45 out of 315. Before him are Oliver E. Williamson, Bernard Mandeville, John Hicks, Gary Becker, Alexander Hamilton, and Benjamin Graham. After him are Kenneth Arrow, James Tobin, Frédéric Bastiat, Maurice Allais, W. Edwards Deming, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
1932 - 2020
HPI: 73.46
Rank: 39
1670 - 1733
HPI: 73.31
Rank: 40
1904 - 1989
HPI: 73.29
Rank: 41
1930 - 2014
HPI: 73.14
Rank: 42
1755 - 1804
HPI: 72.89
Rank: 43
1894 - 1976
HPI: 72.86
Rank: 44
1857 - 1929
HPI: 72.85
Rank: 45
1921 - 2017
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 46
1918 - 2002
HPI: 72.65
Rank: 47
1801 - 1850
HPI: 72.64
Rank: 48
1911 - 2010
HPI: 72.63
Rank: 49
1900 - 1993
HPI: 72.58
Rank: 50
1949 - Present
HPI: 72.58
Rank: 51
Among people born in 1857, Thorstein Veblen ranks 22. Before him are Theo van Gogh, Eugen Bleuler, Paul Doumer, Antoni Grabowski, Axel Munthe, and Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia. After him are Andrija Mohorovičić, Alexander of Battenberg, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Karl Pearson, Ronald Ross, and Lucien Lévy-Bruhl. Among people deceased in 1929, Thorstein Veblen ranks 16. Before him are Bernhard von Bülow, Otto Liman von Sanders, Prince Maximilian of Baden, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Aby Warburg, and Wyatt Earp. After him are Charles Cooley, Émile Loubet, Maria Christina of Austria, Antoine Bourdelle, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia, and Franz Rosenzweig.
1857 - 1891
HPI: 76.03
Rank: 16
1857 - 1939
HPI: 75.26
Rank: 17
1857 - 1932
HPI: 73.74
Rank: 18
1857 - 1921
HPI: 73.04
Rank: 19
1857 - 1949
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 20
1857 - 1905
HPI: 72.87
Rank: 21
1857 - 1929
HPI: 72.85
Rank: 22
1857 - 1936
HPI: 72.76
Rank: 23
1857 - 1893
HPI: 72.63
Rank: 24
1857 - 1940
HPI: 72.30
Rank: 25
1857 - 1936
HPI: 72.26
Rank: 26
1857 - 1932
HPI: 72.22
Rank: 27
1857 - 1939
HPI: 72.07
Rank: 28
1849 - 1929
HPI: 73.77
Rank: 10
1855 - 1929
HPI: 73.56
Rank: 11
1867 - 1929
HPI: 73.45
Rank: 12
1865 - 1929
HPI: 73.42
Rank: 13
1866 - 1929
HPI: 73.25
Rank: 14
1848 - 1929
HPI: 72.98
Rank: 15
1857 - 1929
HPI: 72.85
Rank: 16
1864 - 1929
HPI: 72.31
Rank: 17
1838 - 1929
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 18
1858 - 1929
HPI: 71.53
Rank: 19
1861 - 1929
HPI: 71.49
Rank: 20
1856 - 1929
HPI: 71.35
Rank: 21
1886 - 1929
HPI: 70.24
Rank: 22
Among people born in United States, Thorstein Veblen ranks 678 out of 15,968. Before him are Harry Belafonte (1927), L. Ron Hubbard (1911), Jason Robards (1922), Donald Knuth (1938), Fred Trump (1905), and Joseph McCarthy (1908). After him are Anne Bancroft (1931), John Cassavetes (1929), Ritchie Valens (1941), Kenneth Arrow (1921), John Irving (1942), and Gene Wilder (1933).
1927 - Present
HPI: 72.91
Rank: 672
1911 - 1986
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 673
1922 - 2000
HPI: 72.89
Rank: 674
1938 - Present
HPI: 72.89
Rank: 675
1905 - 1999
HPI: 72.88
Rank: 676
1908 - 1957
HPI: 72.86
Rank: 677
1857 - 1929
HPI: 72.85
Rank: 678
1931 - 2005
HPI: 72.85
Rank: 679
1929 - 1989
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 680
1941 - 1959
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 681
1921 - 2017
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 682
1942 - Present
HPI: 72.83
Rank: 683
1933 - 2016
HPI: 72.83
Rank: 684
Among economists born in United States, Thorstein Veblen ranks 10. Before him are Herbert A. Simon (1916), Joseph Stiglitz (1943), Michael Porter (1947), Elinor Ostrom (1933), Oliver E. Williamson (1932), and Gary Becker (1930). After him are Kenneth Arrow (1921), James Tobin (1918), W. Edwards Deming (1900), Douglass North (1920), Irving Fisher (1867), and Charles Cooley (1864).
1916 - 2001
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 4
1943 - Present
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 5
1947 - Present
HPI: 74.33
Rank: 6
1933 - 2012
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 7
1932 - 2020
HPI: 73.46
Rank: 8
1930 - 2014
HPI: 73.14
Rank: 9
1857 - 1929
HPI: 72.85
Rank: 10
1921 - 2017
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 11
1918 - 2002
HPI: 72.65
Rank: 12
1900 - 1993
HPI: 72.58
Rank: 13
1920 - 2015
HPI: 72.46
Rank: 14
1867 - 1947
HPI: 72.43
Rank: 15
1864 - 1929
HPI: 72.31
Rank: 16