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Thorstein Veblen

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Noun1.Thorstein Veblen - United States economist who wrote about conspicuous consumption (1857-1929)


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Among the thinkers who are profiled are Amartya Sen, Kant, John Rawls, and Thorstein Veblen.
Mark knew that Thorstein Veblen said that there are two leisure classes--one is at the top with people having enough money to buy leisure and one is at the bottom and they don’t want to work anymore than the people at the top, but they don’t have money.
He introduced the concept of technostructure: that is, a new class of technical and professional personnel as a social stratum, which was previously, and more narrowly, conceived by Thorstein Veblen.
 
 
 
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