Thorstein Veblen

American economist & social philosopher

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Invention is the mother of necessity.

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No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.

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The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.

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Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)

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