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In this dissertation, I develop theoretical models and an empirical study of the role of social interactions, the evolution of social norms, and their impact on individual behavior. Although my models are consistent with individual utility maximization, they generally emphasize social factors that channel individual decisions and/or shape individuals' preferences. I apply this approach to three different issues: labor supply, fertility decisions, and intergenerational transfers, generating predictions that are more consistent with observed empirical patterns of behavior than standard neoclassical approaches that assume independent preferences, perfect information, and efficient markets. In the first essay, I explain the long-run evolution of working hours during the 20th century in developed countries: the substantial decline for the first three quarters of the 20th century and the deceleration or even reversal of the fall in working hours in the last quarter. I develop a model of the determination of working hours and how this process is affected by both the conflict between employers and employees and the employees' desire to emulate the consumption standards of the rich reference group. The model also explores the effects of direct and indirect policies to limit hours advocated by political representations of workers such as trade unions or leftist parties. In the second essay, I study the coevolution of gender norms and fertility regimes. Since the 1990s, a new pattern of positive correlation between fertility rates and female labor force participation emerged in developed countries. This recent trend seems inconsistent with conventional economic approaches that explain fertility decline as a result of the increasing opportunity costs of childrearing, predicting a negative correlation between fertility and women's labor force participation. To address this puzzle, I develop a model of the evolution of gender norms and fertility in various economic environments influenced by the level of women's wages. Randomly matched spouses make choices related to fertility - labor supply and the division of household labor - based on their preferences shaped by gender norms. In the model, norm updating is influenced by both within-family payoffs and conformism payoffs from social interactions among the same sex. The model shows how changes in economic environments and the degree of conformism toward norms can alter fertility outcomes. The results suggest that the asymmetric evolution of gender norms between men and women could contribute to very low fertility, explaining the positive correlation between fertility and women's labor force participation. Finally, I estimate the effect of exogenously introduced public pensions for the elderly on the amount of private transfers they receive. There has been a long debate whether public transfers crowd out private transfers. Previous empirical studies on this issue suffer from the endogeneity of income that contaminates estimates. I use an exogenously introduced public transfer, the Basic Old Age Pension in Korea, to test the crowding out hypothesis. A considerable proportion of the elderly population, especially women living without a spouse, do not experience the crowding out effect and moreover, among those who do, the size of the effect is relatively small. The results support the redistribution effect of the Basic Old Age Pension targeting the poor elderly in Korea.

Ma thèse s'intéresse à la théorie financière de l'entreprise qui émerge entre 1880 et 1929, ainsi qu’à l’apport de Veblen.Tout d'abord nous mettons en exergue les contributions analytique et macroéconomique que livre Veblen concernant la business enterprise. Il met en avant un triptyque crédit-actions-goodwill grâce auquel nous affirmons qu'il est un théoricien "pré-moderne" de la finance d'entreprise. Sa vision du goodwill lui permet de dresser une théorie de l'investissement qui s'ancre dans la filiation de la Q-Theory. Il propose ainsi un regard pionnier sur le management d'entreprise, avec son analyse du comportement de l'insider et de l'outsider. Dans un second temps, à travers un travail d'archives et une investigation dans les premiers manuels de finance d'entreprise, nous présentons une lecture de l'émergence de cette discipline académique, issue de la pratique des grandes entreprises. Un premier vocabulaire et les premières théories émergent. Par ailleurs, un débat plus large prend place concernant l'éducation aux Etats-Unis et l'institutionnalisation de l'enseignement des affaires dans la higher education, auquel Veblen prend part. / My PhD dissertation focuses on the theory of the corporate finance that emerged between 1880 and 1929, as well as the contribution of Veblen.First, we highlight Veblen’s analytical and macroeconomic contributions to the business enterprise. He highlights a trinity credit-equity-goodwill by which we assert that he is a "pre-modern" theorist of corporate finance. His vision of goodwill allows him to draw up a theory of investment that is rooted in the affiliation of the Q-Theory. It thus offers a pioneering look at the management of an enterprise, with its analysis of the behavior of the insider and the outsider.Secondly, through an archival work and an investigation into the first corporate finance manuals, we present a reading of the emergence of this academic discipline, resulting from the practice of large companies. A first vocabulary and the first theories emerge. In addition, there is a wider debate about education in the United States and the institutionalization of business education in higher education, in which Veblen takes part.

Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-01T23:39:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 tese_8240_Lígia Loss Corradi_Dissertação.pdf: 4027535 bytes, checksum: c705f65edc28adedabd62b70b1b0dae8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-06-22 / CAPES / Este trabalho tem como objetivo discutir os pontos de convergência e divergência entre as teorias econômicas de Thorstein Bunde Veblen e John Maynard Keynes. Para cumprir este objetivo, são apresentados, primeiramente, os princípios fundamentais que dão forma à teoria institucionalista de Veblen (a partir de obras selecionadas), tais como os instintos, hábitos e instituições que moldam o comportamento humano. Segundo o autor, a evolução desses elementos é importante para a compreensão da estrutura e do funcionamento do sistema capitalista atual. A seguir, é realizado um estudo do pensamento keynesiano (a partir da publicação de sua Teoria Geral em 1936) a respeito da demanda efetiva, do papel das expectativas de longo prazo na determinação dos níveis de emprego e renda, dos ciclos econômicos, e sua perspectiva sobre o futuro do sistema capitalista. A pesquisa encontrou semelhanças nos pontos de vista dos autores acerca dos componentes da demanda agregada, da determinação dos níveis de emprego e renda em uma economia capitalista, do uso de convenções sociais na tomada de decisão dos agentes e dos ciclos econômicos. Não obstante, a opinião dos autores sobre o futuro do capitalismo é divergente. / This research aims to discuss the convergence and divergence issues between the economic theories of Thorstein Bunde Veblen and John Maynard Keynes. To meet these objectives, it presents firstly, the core principals of Veblen’s theoretical underpinnings (based on his selected pieces), such as: instincts, habits, and institutions that shape human behavior. According to the author, the evolution of these elements is important to the understanding of the structure and the functioning of the current capitalist system. After that, the dissertation examines the Keynesian thought (developed after his General Theory, 1936) about the effective demand, the role of long-term expectations to determining employment levels and income, the economic cycles, and his perspective on the future of the capitalist system. The research found similarities in the views of both authors about the components of aggregate demand, about the determination of employment and income, the use of social conventions in decision-making agents, and the economic cycle. Nevertheless, the opinion of the authors on the future of capitalism is divergent

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-29T11:13:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 tese_6169_Camatta 2014 - Para Além do Consumo Conspícuo - Definitivo.pdf: 958426 bytes, checksum: 9da597163c22c02cc125c45e86c30c0f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-05-30 / O consumo é um tema central na economia e foi abordado em diversas correntes microeconômicas, além de ser estudado em diversas outras áreas como a Administração, Marketing, Psicologia, Sociologia, etc. Este trabalho busca mostrar a importância da contribuição de Thorstein Veblen acerca deste tema, que engloba componentes como instintos, hábitos e instituições. Para tanto, inicia-se a pesquisa com uma retrospectiva histórica sobre a conjuntura institucional na qual o autor escreveu sua obra. Ao longo desta são apontados como os fenômenos históricos influenciaram algumas das obras do autor. Em seguida, apresenta-se a teoria do processo de decisão do agente em sua forma mais abstrata, no que tange à inter-relação dos instintos, hábitos e instituições. Esta análise se inicia com um breve panorama da Teoria da Utilidade Marginal, qual seja, a interpretação marginalista sobre o consumo, seguida da crítica vebleniana a esta teoria. Estas seções são importantes pois é a partir da crítica à Utilidade Marginal que Veblen apresenta quais são as bases essenciais para uma teoria do consumo institucionalista assim como quais são suas concepções epistemológicas. Em seguida examina-se a teoria do processo de decisão do agente vebleniano, base para a elaboração tanto da teoria do consumo conspícuo quanto do consumo padronizado. Na sequência, analisa-se o consumo conspícuo na obra de Veblen e a interpretação marginalista deste conceito. Busca-se avaliar em que medida esta última se afasta da teoria original, assim como mostrar seus avanços acerca do tema. Demonstra-se, a partir da análise do livro The Theory of Bussiness Enterprise, que a concepção vebleniana não está restrita ao consumo conspícuo e apresenta o conceito de consumo padronizado, responsável por analisar mercadorias não emulativas. / The consumption issues are central to the economic theory, and were approached by various microeconomic schools and as well by other disciplines as Administration, Marketing, Psychology, Sociology, etc. This Dissertation tries to demonstrate the importance of Thorstein Veblen contribution to the theme, primarily by the inclusion of instincts, habits and institutions in the analysis. To this purpose, the study initiate with a historical retrospective of the decades that Veblen wrote his most important works. As the historical phenomena are discussed, there are indications of how those have influenced Veblen’s works. Afterwards, the Veblen’s decision making process is presented, with specific sections to instincts and habits/institution, as well as the interrelation between those factors. This analysis initiate with an overview of the marginalist theory of consumption (the marginal utility theory), and Veblen’s critic to this point of view. Those sections are important to express the origin point of Veblen epistemological proposition for an evolutionary economics. Subsequently, the decision making process is analyzed per se. Over this process lies all Veblen’s consumption theory, both the conspicuous and the standardized. Finally, the primary objective of this Dissertation is investigated, first by the survey of Veblen’s Conspicuous Consumption Theory, the original proposition, than its latter unfolding research, the marginal interpretation. In these section the research attempt to expose in which points the marginal interpretation of the Conspicuous Consumption advances as well in which points it deviates from the original proposition. Finally, from the analysis of The Theory of Business Enterprise book, the research indicates that Veblen’s consumer theory is not restricted to the Conspicuous Consumption of luxury brands. Otherwise, with the introduction of standardized consumption concept, this theory embodies the wage goods as well.

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This study is concerned with the historical development and perpetuation of the leisure class in the Colombian society. The study is based on Thorstein Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class. The main purpose of this study is to analyze in terms of the evolution of social institutions the problems that the Colombian society faces today. Spanish values and traditions are analyzed, as well as more recent values and modes of behavior adopted by the leisure class. Institutions such as the church, the educational, employment and political apparatus are analyzed in terms of how they contribute to the perpetuation of elites. This study concludes that as long as there is economic surplus in society, a leisure class will exist. The elites forming the leisure class may be displaced by counter-elites, which in turn will conform a new leisure class.

This thesis discusses American prairie culture through the writings of Thorstein Veblen and Mark Twain.

"Reflection of Haute Couture in The Czech lands" deals with fashion in the second half of the 19th century and early 20th century in the Czech lands. Before confirmation of national independence in the form of Czechoslovak republic the Czech fashion was evolving between two opposing tendencies. First, there was acceptance of influence from abroad, especially from France, England and Germany particularly through fashion magazines, and second, there was an effort to preserve national originality. The target of this thesis is not the analysis of fashion trends in the Czech environment but analysis of fashion as a phenomenon linked to wider societal aspects, political affiliations, construction of national identity and specific, nearly missing position of Czech aristocracy. This thesis monitors the status of a tailor in the Czech lands, his struggle with the beginning of apparel production and compares his emplacement with the French tailors, also known as coutiers who have created an autonomous and independent status of the clientele already in the second half of the 19th century.