Invention is the mother of necessity.
Thorstein Veblen Quotes
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.
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| Birth: | 30th July, 1857 |
| Death: | 3rd August, 1929 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Critic, Economist, Leader, Sociologist |
