After being fired from Chicago and Stanford for marital infidelity, he wound up at Missouri, where he had office hours for five minutes a week.
After being fired from Chicago and Stanford for marital infidelity, he wound up at Missouri, where he had office hours for five minutes a week. He argued against the use of students' professional achievements to measure academic success in The Higher Learning in America, which claimed universities were being infiltrated by a business culture. Also the author of The Vested Interests and the Common Man, he now has his name describe a product that sees its demand decrease as its price goes down because people no longer see it as a high status good. For ten points, name this coiner of the term "conspicuous consumption" and author of The Theory of the Leisure Class.
After being fired from Chicago and Stanford for marital infidelity, he wound up at Missouri, where he had office hours for five minutes a week.
Thorstein {Veblen}