Associations to the word «Veblen»
Noun
- Oswald
- Sociologist
- Leisure
- Economist
- Consumption
- Marx
- Geometry
- Axiom
- Economics
- Neumann
- Keynes
- Trickle
- Dewey
- Topology
- Wal
- Carleton
- Mathematician
- Vanderbilt
- Theorem
- Economic
- Hierarchy
- Maynard
- Princeton
- Spock
- Theory
- Cornelius
- Notation
- Capitalism
- Critique
- Socialism
- Sociology
- Thinker
- Georg
- Karl
- Ethic
- Enterprise
- Vatican
- Dissertation
- Workplace
- Dress
- Social
- Auction
- Wealth
- Variable
- Monitor
- Kirk
- Mason
- Mitchell
- Weber
- Ethics
- Status
- Herbert
- Mccoy
- Clothing
- Consumer
- Treatise
- Instructor
- Prize
- Good
- Decay
- Economy
- Kenneth
- Dakota
- Console
- Proof
- Mathematics
- Wage
- Immigrant
- Pm
- Price
- Institution
- Demand
- Fashion
- Stanford
Adjective
Wiktionary
VEBLEN GOOD, noun. A good for which people's preference for buying them increases as a direct function of their price, as greater price confers greater status.
Dictionary definition
VEBLEN, noun. United States economist who wrote about conspicuous consumption (1857-1929).
VEBLEN, noun. United States mathematician (1880-1960).
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.