The Instinct of Workmanship. Thorstein B. Veblen

Thorstein Veblen and American Social Criticism

Veblen’s “Instinct of Workmanship,” its Cognitive Foundations, and Some Implications for Economic Theory

This paper delivers some findings from the present-day cognitive sciences on man’s cognitive dispositions that support aspects of Veblen’s “instinct of workmanship,” which is an essential starting point of his evolutionary theory of institutional change. These cognitive dispositions partly govern which information will be subject to profound contemplation and be easy to disseminate within a pop...

Peacocks, Porsches, and Thorstein Veblen: conspicuous consumption as a sexual signaling system.

Conspicuous consumption is a form of economic behavior in which self-presentational concerns override desires to obtain goods at bargain prices. Showy spending may be a social signal directed at potential mates. We investigated such signals by examining (a) which individuals send them, (b) which contexts trigger them, and (c) how observers interpret them. Three experiments demonstrated that con...

the investigation of the relationship between type a and type b personalities and quality of translation

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Thorstein Fretheim and Ildikó Vaskó

It may be in order to say a few words initially about the linguistic term 'concessive' and its relationship to the (object-language) English noun concession and the verb concede (i.e. "admit", "acknowledge", "allow", "accept", "grant", etc.). Unlike the corresponding noun and verb, the adjective concessive and the adverb concessively are seldom found in discourse where they are not used metalin...