Word: veblenian
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...Some Veblenian titles, The Engineers and the Price System, The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Theory of the Leisure Class, will recall to the initiated that Thorstein Veblen was the mental sire of many a U.S. intellectual who grew up to be a technocrat. The initiated will remember, too, that Veblen has been praised and damned as the prophet of the New Deal. His influence on Rexford Guy Tugwell, George Soule, Stuart Chase and other New Deal economists has been profound. Anti-New Dealer Edgar M. Queeny (The Spirit of Enterprise), president of the Monsanto Chemical Co., has even gone...
...asleep, usually sat with his head on his hand, murmuring polysyllabically. But his first book, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), made a splash whose ripples are still spreading. Veblen was surprised at its popularity, annoyed that it was taken as a satire on aristocracy. Such Veblenian phrases as "conspicuous waste" became famed. So did the Veblenian style, which H. L. Mencken compared to "a constant roll of subway expresses," which Veblen himself parodied in such passages...
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