Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election may very well mean an end to democracy in the near future ...

When the price of most types of products goes up, demand for them tightens. Except for a couple of special cases.

The founders, among them Charles Beard, John Dewey, James Harvey Robinson, and Thorstein Veblen, were teaching at Columbia University during the First World War. When they took a public stand against ...

16世纪晚期，兼具文人、艺术家和出版商身份的周履靖出版了《绘林》《画薮》等一系列图书，这是中国古代最早的一批多题材综合性画谱。周氏画谱的出版当即大受欢迎，其内容和形式被当时的各种出版物广泛袭用与传播，它的流行对后世包括《芥子园画谱》在内的诸多画谱名作 ...

So declares the 800-year-old Norse Sverris Saga, an accounting of the rise and reign of King Sverre Sigurdsson, who went on ...

Legendary novelist John Dos Passos tells the story of economist Thorstein Veblen, the outspoken Progressive Era critic of capitalism who coined the phrase “conspicuous consumption.” ...

Throughout time, people have used various symbols as a sign of their status. Here are 10 odd status symbols throughout time.

SSY’s expansion plan began with acquisitions, then came new hires — now the shipbroking group is out to dominate, its ...

In economic terms, what we’re talking about are Veblen goods, named after Thorstein Veblen, the Gilded Age economist who ...

Shipbroking group SSY is entering the LPG and ammonia market for the first time with the hire of Thorstein Bergersen.

SSY, the world’s largest independent shipbroker, announced that it is to enter the LPG and Ammonia markets in order to help ...

Does this oft-maligned human behavior offering us anything other than the opportunity to show off? Here's what the research says.