Veblen, Thorstein (Bunde)

Japanese: ベブレン（英語表記）Veblen， Thorstein (Bunde)

Born July 30, 1857 in Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
[Died] August 3, 1929. American economist and sociologist near Menlo Park, California. Born to a farming family of Norwegian immigrants, he studied at Yale and Cornell universities. After teaching at the universities of Chicago, Stanford, and Missouri, he edited the magazine The Dial in 1918. He studied the evolution of economic institutions rather than economic theory, and became the founder of institutional economics. In his main work, The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study in the Evolution of Institutions (1899), he argued that the creative and aggressive instincts that underlie human behavior are the essence of leisure, while the former produces labor, and that the leisure class emerged from the establishment of ownership, and that the desire for possessions leads to the acquisition of wealth and power. He also provided a unique explanation of leisure, which had a great influence on many later works. His other works include The Theory of Business Enterprise (1904), The Vested Interests and the State of the Industrial Arts (19), and Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times: The Case of America (23).

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Japanese:

[生]1857.7.30. ウィスコンシン，マニトウォク
[没]1929.8.3. カリフォルニア，メンロパーク近郊
アメリカの経済学者，社会学者。ノルウェー系移民の農家に生れ，エール，コーネル両大学で学ぶ。シカゴ，スタンフォード，ミズーリ各大学で教えたのち，1918年雑誌『ダイアル』 The Dialを編集。経済理論よりも経済制度の進化論的研究を手がけ，制度学派経済学の創始者となった。主著『有閑階級の理論』 The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study in the Evolution of Institutions (1899) において人間の行為の基盤にある制作本能と攻撃本能のうち労働を生み出す前者に対して，後者をもってレジャーの本質とし，所有権の成立から有閑階級が出現し，所有を求める欲求が富と権力の獲得につながることを問題とした。またレジャーについての独特の説明を行なって，のちにまで多くの影響を及ぼした。その他著書，『企業の理論』 The Theory of Business Enterprise (1904) ，『特権階級論』 The Vested Interests and the State of the Industrial Arts (19) ，『アメリカ資本主義批判』 Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times: The Case of America (23) など。

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