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Not everyone embraced standardization; many of Veblen's contemporaries thought that standards would eliminate individuality and make life dull.

So We're All in Agreement Evgeny Morozov 2012

In fact, H.L. Mencken wrote a pretty devastating takedown of Dr. Veblen's verbose & impenetrable style.

Why Oh Why Can't Hayek Write Better?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Last week, at a state park on the Susquehanna River, Rick Santorum was seen lost in thought as he delved into Thorstein Veblen's 1899 classic "Theory of the Leisure Class."

Beach Reading for Would-Be Presidents Joe Queenan 2011

Reread Veblen's Absentee Ownership, which all by itself might easily replace a two year MBA program, a PhD economics program or a three year JD program.

Page One of My Next Book, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Official proclamations of the competitive ways of small entrepreneurs now labor under an enormous burden of fact which demonstrates in detail the accuracy of Thorstein Veblen's analysis.

One way or another Matthew Guerrieri 2008

Official proclamations of the competitive ways of small entrepreneurs now labor under an enormous burden of fact which demonstrates in detail the accuracy of Thorstein Veblen's analysis.

Archive 2008-09-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

I also saw jobs as providing people with the opportunity to do work in which they can take some pride (Veblen's instinct of workmanship) and as providing whatever self-esteem may come from being self-supporting

Edmund S. Phelps - Autobiography 2007

And finally Carl Menger where in contrast to Veblen's lightening calculator of pleasure and pain, a view of man as caught between alluring hopes and haunting fears is laid out.

Notes on Masonomics, 1: Reason without Rationality, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Gratification from contemplation is a succinct definition of the appeal of luxury goods; nevertheless it is hard not to see Veblen's tongue firmly in his bearded cheek.

The Calculus Of Pleasure 2008

It is in passing through the hands of people like Rochereau who make such objects, to the generations of owners, and then further generations of Rochereaus who repair them, that luxury items — whether watches, bespoke suits, jewelry, luggage or indeed Veblen's silver spoon — acquire the patina that gives them their talismanic importance.

The Calculus Of Pleasure 2008