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Re: Veblen and the Atcheson, Topeka, and Santa Fe
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Laurence Shute <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 4 May 2012 20:22:09 -0400
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True I believe, at least in part.  Joe Dorfman spoke of this in class; don't recall if it's in his Veblen biography or not.

Larry Shute
Econ Emeritus
Cal Poly Pomona

On 2 May 2012, at 10:13 PM, michael perelman wrote:

> John Dos Passos wrote that his wife's family was trying to get Veblen
> a job on the railroad, which her uncle William Strong ran, just before
> Strong got canned.  Was that just part of his fiction?
> 
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> Michael Perelman
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