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Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
Thorstein Veblen
Thorstein Veblen
Thorstein Veblen
Born: Jul 30, 1857
Died: Aug 3, 1929

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Valuable, Gentleman, Conspicuous, Consumption, Goods, Leisure, Means

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Alan Greenspan, Herbert A. Simon, John Kenneth Galbraith, Milton Friedman, Paul A. Volcker, Richard Thaler, Robert Reich, Thomas Sowell

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