Products that become more desired as they increase in price and scarcity are known as the namesake goods of this man, who theorized that purchases made out of a desire for social visibility constitute "conspicuous consumption."
While working on his doctorate, this man wrote such joking essays as "A Plea for Cannibalism" and he wrote a more serious essay arguing economics is not an evolutionary science. In one work, this man attempted to trace many modern practices to the "barbarian temperament," which gives rise to such archetypical concepts as the "instinct of workmanship," the desire to create "anthropomorphic cults," and the practice of "pecuniary emulation." Products that become more desired as they increase in price and scarcity are known as the namesake goods of this man, who theorized that purchases made out of a desire for social visibility constitute "conspicuous consumption." For 10 points, name this sociologist who authored The Theory of the Leisure Class.
While working on his doctorate, this man wrote such joking essays as "A Plea for Cannibalism" and he wrote a more serious essay arguing economics is not an evolutionary science.
Thorstein Bunde Veblen [or Torsten Bunde Veblen]