Associations to the word «Veblen»
Noun
- Garment
- Evolution
- Ownership
- Businessman
- Concept
- Behavior
- Display
- Ecology
- Venezuela
- Society
- Yale
- Discrimination
- Ac
- Behaviour
- Value
- Chicago
- Civilization
- Tendency
- Minnesota
- Essay
- Analysis
- Dimension
- Max
- Engineer
- Perspective
- Distinction
- Function
- Vector
- Smiling
- Steel
- Small
- Curve
- Critic
- Con
- Virtue
- Von
- Farm
- Advertising
- Cycle
- Argument
- Philosophy
- Professor
- Philosopher
- Pursuit
- Profit
- Principle
- Algorithm
- Robinson
- Forum
- Contribution
- Marshall
- Scott
- Class
- Approach
- Variation
- Idea
- Symbol
- Writing
- Hall
- Carl
- Science
- Common
- Labor
- Study
Adjective
Adverb
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
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and
nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar
words.