Appropriation, beliefs, and inculcation: Some other connections between American Pragmatism and Veblen’s conspicuous consumer

ABSTRACT Thorstein Veblen was a founding father of the original institutional economics. Veblen’s first book, The Theory Leisure Class (1899), introduced to economists an interdisciplinary perspective understand consumers’ decision-making. This relied on processual nature instincts, habits, and institutions. ideas human behavior were not completely original, it has been widely recognized that some his insights clearly reference teachings American pragmatic school philosophy. In light this, our study offers interpretation consumer through viewpoints main thinkers pragmatist time. explores important themes within pragmatism, such as William James’s concept appropriation, Charles Peirce’s understanding belief social impulse, John Dewey’s socialization inculcation habits. Based these references, we seek generate new into decision-making in broader terms at same time preserve philosophical references.