Veblen, Thorstein Bunde. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Veblen, Thorstein Bunde

SYLLABICATION:	Veb·len
PRONUNCIATION:	vbln
DATES:	1857–1929
	American economist who described a fundamental conflict between the provision of goods and the making of money. In his popular study The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) he coined the phrase conspicuous consumption.


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