For 10 points, name this economist of Norwegian descent who wrote The Theory of Business Enterprise and The Theory of the Leisure Class.
In one of this thinker's works, he noted that the railroad financing system began a trend of owners and creditors of a company being one and the same, blurring the line between credit and capital.  In that same work, he also mentioned the clash between the "machine" of industrial production and the profit focus of the titular entity.  In another work, he suggested that it would be impossible to overthrow the "Vested Interests" that control some industries.  In addition to The (*) Engineers and the Price System, he observed that members of the title group desired items simply because of their expensive price and status, leading to his namesake economic good, in his major work, which introduced the concept of "conspicuous consumption."  For 10 points, name this economist of Norwegian descent who wrote The Theory of Business Enterprise and The Theory of the Leisure Class.
In one of this thinker's works, he noted that the railroad financing system began a trend of owners and creditors of a company being one and the same, blurring the line between credit and capital.  
Thorstein {Veblen}