e is the type of methodology Veblen so-called social Darwinism, the essence of which is that the evolution of social organization was the process of natural selection of social institutions. What were the main points of social Darwinism? Social-Darwinist prophesied that fierce competition in the industry, forcing outsiders large corporations (trusts) - a perfect mirror of the "natural order of things", a civilization that way going up, like biological evolution. Survival of the fittest, the best selection occurs when natural economic processes are going on as usual, without the intervention of the reformers and the government.with the youth feel alienated from their busy world Yankees, and this so nazyvavmy disformiz determined his fate in science and in life. Knowing the fate of a poor student at the prestigious Yale University, then an unemployed Ph.D. and hack, he finally took a modest position in the University of Chicago, founded in 1892 with the money of the rich businessman US JD Rockefeller hired lawyers who created the legal basis for the operation of large corporations (Holding - the company). Veblen was well inside the orbit is rapidly expanding power of big business, which began to subsidize American universities and identify prevalent in these ways of thinking.quit this world - as well as academic marginalism B. Clark, his former teacher - calling his book "The Theory of the Leisure Class. Economic research institutes (1899), in which the "learned behavior and psychology of the American rich as any anthropologist studied the rites and rituals of a primitive tribe in New Guinea" (5) established the need for a biological approach to the economy, Veblen gave Social Darwinism different color, evolution of society is a process of natural selection of institutions that, in fact, there is a habitual way of thinking in regard to the relationship between society and the individual. Institutions - the results of the processes taking place in the past and, therefore, are not in full compliance with the requirements of the present time, but under the pressure of circumstances in the life of the community, there is a change in the mentality of people, that is, development of institutions, and changes in human nature itself. (6) of attention was the Veblen Institute of the leisure class. Its emergence and development of Veblen linked with "selective effect of the laws of predation and parasitism" and practices of private property, the evolution of which is described as follows. The property originally appeared as a trophy. The motives underlying it - the rivalry, envy comparison, demonstrative prosperity as the basis of respect and thirst for power, conferred by wealth. "A healthy assessment of people and things is the assessment based on the fight." Valiant opposition develops, aggressive, acquisitive activity and work, assumes the character of a tedious process due to negligent attitude toward it. As the stage of acquisition by...
