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In a way, though, Veblen did end up with children. After Ellen finally granted him a divorce in 1912 (she showed up for the court proceedings in her white silk wedding dress, like Miss Havisham), Veblen married Ann, becoming an adoptive father to her two daughters. They all spent summers on a Lake Michigan island. There Veblen found opportunities to follow his instinct for workmanship. He built two cabins by hand, along with an elaborate raft for the girls. His stepdaughter Becky later recalled that he led them on berry hunts and nature walks around the island. He especially seemed to enjoy their birthdays. Drawing on his extensive readings in anthropology, Veblen designed ceremonial parties under “a large conifer that he  Firefighter It’s Not A Phase It’s My Life It’s Not A Job It’s My Passion Poster named ‘Chief Spruce,’” Becky wrote. These years, when he could exercise his parental bent, appear to have been the happiest of his life.

Unfortunately, the Veblens’ family happiness didn’t last long. After they moved to New York City in 1918, Ann began to suffer from serious delusions. She believed that the German Kaiser’s son was on a “secret mission” to assassinate Thorstein. After a complete mental collapse, she was committed to Bellevue Hospital in Massachusetts, where she died in 1920. Veblen stayed in New York, teaching at The New School, but as its fortunes declined, he had to rely on former students to raise money for his salary. In 1926, with his health deteriorating, Veblen returned to the more comfortable California climate. He died of heart disease on August 3, 1929, about two months before the stock market crashed, just as he had predicted it would.

Hopefully, Camic’s book foretells a renewed interest in Veblen. Veblen offers something often lacking from the present conversation about political economy. One can read all day every day about the horrors of free-market capitalism, and about the need for political organization to defeat it. But what then? It’s rarer to read about what an alternative economy would look like.

Veblen can be a partial guide here. He was obsessed with how enterprises and technology work because he wanted to put them to better purposes. His Soviet of Technicians was the culmination of his lifelong quest to marry productivity, technological expertise, scientific advancement, and serviceability to the community. He was trying to update the immigrant farming experience for the industrial age — or, more specifically, keep the communal spirit of the former while adding the technological wonders of the latter. Doesn’t that still need to happen, only now for digital technology as well?

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