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The Theory of the Leisure Class

The Theory of Business Enterprise

The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts

The Higher Learning in America

Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution

The Vested Interests and the Common Man

The Engineers and the Price System

The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation

The Evolution of the Scientific Point of View

Why Is Economics Not an Evolutionary Science?

The Preconceptions of Economic Science

Professor Clark's Economics

The Limitations of Marginal Utility

Gustav Schmoller's Economics

Industrial and Pecuniary Employments

On the Nature of Capital

Some Neglected Points in the Theory of Socialism

The Socialist Economics of Karl Marx

Böhm-Bawerk's Definition of Capital and the Source of Wages

The Overproduction Fallacy

The Price of Wheat since 1867

Adolph Wagner's New Treatise

The Food Supply and the Price of Wheat

The Army of the Commonweal

The Economic Theory of Women's Dress

The Instinct of Workmanship and the Irksomeness of Labor

The Beginning of Ownership

The Barbarian Status of Women

Mr. Cummings's Strictures on "The Theory of the Leisure Class"

The Later Railway Combinations

Levasseur on Hand and Machine Labor…

The Use of Loan Credit in Modern Business

Credit and Prices

Fisher's Capital and Income

Fisher's Rate of Interest

The Industrial System and the Captains of Industry

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Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was an American economist and sociologist. He is well known as a witty critic of capitalism. Veblen is famous for the idea of "conspicuous consumption." Conspicuous consumption, along with "conspicuous leisure," is performed to demonstrate wealth or mark social status.