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A difficult colleague to get along with, in 1906 Veblen went to [[Stanford University]] and in 1910 to the [[University of Missouri]]. He published ''The Instinct of Workmanship'' in 1914; it was his most ambitious work, but it lacked the satire and ridicule that made his other books best-sellers.  ''Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution'' (1915) argued that Germany's strength lay in the fact that she borrowed the industrial techniques from England but instead of borrowing the English democratic procedure she combined them with the unqualified feudal-militaristic institutions congenial to business,  In ''An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of its Perpetuation'' (1917) he argued that patriotism and business enterprise were useless to the community at large, portraying them as the principal obstructions to a lasting peace.  In 1918 he served with [[Herbert Hoover]]'s [[Food Administration]], and published ''The Higher Learning in America,'' a scathing critique of business' influences upon universities.  Veblen assailed the porous boundaries between academia and business and condemned university intrusion into faculty privacy. Trapped in a loveless marriage to his first wife, Ellen, who refused him a divorce, Veblen himself crossed boundaries by having affairs, which ultimately led to his dismissal from both the University of Chicago and Stanford University when Ellen went public with the affairs. Veblen transformed this invasion of his privacy into an exposé of the research university. His overstepping of boundaries and the conspicuous interventions of his spouse provided the raw material for one of the most perceptive analyses of the modern university, ironically proving, contrary to what Veblen believed, that personal experience can provide powerful generalizations.<ref>Clare Eby, "Boundaries Lost: Thorstein Veblen, the Higher Learning in America, and the Conspicuous Spouse" ''Prospects'' 2001 26: 251-293. Issn: 0361-2333</ref>

A difficult colleague to get along with, in 1906 Veblen went to [[Stanford University]] and in 1910 to the [[University of Missouri]]. He published ''The Instinct of Workmanship'' in 1914; it was his most ambitious work, but it lacked the satire and ridicule that made his other books best-sellers.  ''Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution'' (1915) argued that Germany's strength lay in the fact that she borrowed the industrial techniques from England but instead of borrowing the English democratic procedure she combined them with the unqualified feudal-militaristic institutions congenial to business,  In ''An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of its Perpetuation'' (1917) he argued that patriotism and business enterprise were useless to the community at large, portraying them as the principal obstructions to a lasting peace.  In 1918 he served with [[Herbert Hoover]]'s [[Food Administration]], and published ''The Higher Learning in America,'' a scathing critique of business' influences upon universities.  Veblen assailed the porous boundaries between academia and business and condemned university intrusion into faculty privacy. Trapped in a loveless marriage to his first wife, Ellen, who refused him a divorce, Veblen himself crossed boundaries by having affairs, which ultimately led to his dismissal from both the University of Chicago and Stanford University when Ellen went public with the affairs. Veblen transformed this invasion of his privacy into an exposé of the research university. His overstepping of boundaries and the conspicuous interventions of his spouse provided the raw material for one of the most perceptive analyses of the modern university, ironically proving, contrary to what Veblen believed, that personal experience can provide powerful generalizations.<ref>Clare Eby, "Boundaries Lost: Thorstein Veblen, the Higher Learning in America, and the Conspicuous Spouse" ''Prospects'' 2001 26: 251-293. Issn: 0361-2333</ref>

In 1918 and 1919 Veblen published essays and editorials in a radical weekly, ''The Dial'', reprinted in ''The Vested Interests and the Common Man'' (1919). In ''The Engineers and the Price System'' (1921) Veblen examined the role and goals of engineers at the turn of the 20th century. They mainly focused on standardization of industrial processes, and were leaders of the [[Efficiency Movement]]. Often they were torn between their engineering principles of achieving high-quality, low-cost products and their responsibility to their employers who sabotaged economic progress in hopes of making ever larger profits. The last chapter sketched out a possible revolution through the coming to power of an organized “Soviet of Technicians” who could reorder priorities for greatest efficiency, turning the economy away from profit-seeking and toward production for the nation's common good. It sold poorly because Veblen was no longer hiding his meaning behind elaborate analogies (most of them based on his imagination rather than research); his irony was now soaked in vitriol that annoyed his more genteel followers.  From 1920 to 1922 he taught at the [[New School for Social Research]] in New York, and in 1923 he published his last major work, ''Absentee Ownership.''  In the early 1920's, Veblen was active with the [[League for Industrial Democracy]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The challenge of waste|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SClRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP2|date=1922|pages=2}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jQUQAQAAMAAJ&dq=thorstein+veblen&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=thorstein+veblen|last1=Smoot|first1=Dan|title=The Dan Smoot Report, Volume 8|date=1962|pages=63}}</ref>  In 1925 he rejected nomination as president of the American Economic Association, made after considerable opposition from within the organization, because, "They didn't offer it to me when I needed it." He spent his last years in a cabin in the California hills.  

In 1918 and 1919 Veblen published essays and editorials in a radical weekly, ''The Dial'', reprinted in ''The Vested Interests and the Common Man'' (1919). In ''The Engineers and the Price System'' (1921) Veblen examined the role and goals of engineers at the turn of the 20th century. They mainly focused on standardization of industrial processes, and were leaders of the [[Efficiency Movement]]. Often they were torn between their engineering principles of achieving high-quality, low-cost products and their responsibility to their employers who sabotaged economic progress in hopes of making ever larger profits. The last chapter sketched out a possible revolution through the coming to power of an organized “Soviet of Technicians” who could reorder priorities for greatest efficiency, turning the economy away from profit-seeking and toward production for the nation's common good. It sold poorly because Veblen was no longer hiding his meaning behind elaborate analogies (most of them based on his imagination rather than research); his irony was now soaked in vitriol that annoyed his more genteel followers.  From 1920 to 1922 he taught at the [[New School for Social Research]] in New York, and in 1923 he published his last major work, ''Absentee Ownership.''  In the early 1920s, Veblen was active with the [[League for Industrial Democracy]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The challenge of waste|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SClRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP2|date=1922|pages=2}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jQUQAQAAMAAJ&dq=thorstein+veblen&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=thorstein+veblen|last1=Smoot|first1=Dan|title=The Dan Smoot Report, Volume 8|date=1962|pages=63}}</ref>  In 1925 he rejected nomination as president of the American Economic Association, made after considerable opposition from within the organization, because, "They didn't offer it to me when I needed it." He spent his last years in a cabin in the California hills.  

==Contributions to Economics==

==Contributions to Economics==