Du Bois and Veblen’s Concepts of Relative Position: Common Ground for Stratification Economics and Institutionalist Economics?
Review of Radical Political Economics
Published online on March 12, 2026
Abstract
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W.E.B. Du Bois and Thorstein Veblen employed the concept of relative position. Du Bois’s thinking reflects how for Stratification economics people’s relative positions explain racial discrimination and segregation. Veblen’s reflects how for ...
W.E.B. Du Bois and Thorstein Veblen employed the concept of relative position. Du Bois’s thinking reflects how for Stratification economics people’s relative positions explain racial discrimination and segregation. Veblen’s reflects how for ...