This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was an American economist and sociologist. He is well known as a witty critic of capitalism. Veblen is famous for the idea of "conspicuous consumption." Conspicuous consumption, along with "conspicuous leisure," is performed to demonstrate wealth or mark social status. Content:The Theory of the Leisure ClassThe Theory of Business EnterpriseThe Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial ArtsThe Higher Learning in America Imperial Germany and the Industrial RevolutionThe Vested Interests and the Common ManThe Engineers and the Price SystemThe Place of Science in Modern CivilisationThe Evolution of the Scientific Point of ViewWhy Is Economics Not an Evolutionary Science?The Preconceptions of Economic ScienceProfessor Clark's EconomicsThe Limitations of Marginal UtilityGustav Schmoller's EconomicsIndustrial and Pecuniary EmploymentsOn the Nature of CapitalSome Neglected Points in the Theory of SocialismThe Socialist Economics of Karl MarxBöhm-Bawerk's Definition of Capital and the Source of WagesThe Overproduction FallacyThe Price of Wheat since 1867Adolph Wagner's New TreatiseThe Food Supply and the Price of WheatThe Army of the CommonwealThe Economic Theory of Women's DressThe Instinct of Workmanship and the Irksomeness of LaborThe Beginning of OwnershipThe Barbarian Status of WomenMr. Cummings's Strictures on "The Theory of the Leisure Class"The Later Railway CombinationsLevasseur on Hand and Machine Labor…The Use of Loan Credit in Modern BusinessCredit and PricesFisher's Capital and IncomeFisher's Rate of InterestThe Industrial System and the Captains of Industry...