About Thorstein Veblen
Thorstein Bunde Veblen ( THOR-styn VEH-blən; July 30, 1857 – August 3, 1929) was an American economist and sociologist who, during his lifetime, emerged as a well-known critic of capitalism. In his best-known book, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), Veblen coined the concepts of conspicuous consumption and conspicuous...
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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
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Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
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