His series in The Dial entitled "The Modern Point of View and the New Order" was later published in book form as The Vested Interest.  
His series in The Dial entitled "The Modern Point of View and the New Order" was later published in book form as The Vested Interest.  He harshly criticized business involvement in universities in The Higher Education in America and claimed that modern wars were caused by competing national business interests in An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace.  These themes were also the focus of his The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts.  FTP, name this economist, who coined the term "conspicuous consumption" in his seminal The Theory of the Leisure Class.
His series in The Dial entitled "The Modern Point of View and the New Order" was later published in book form as The Vested Interest.  
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