Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
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Original Citation
Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study in the Evolution of Institutions. Macmillan, 1899, ch. 4.
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Current Citation
Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class, edited by Martha Banta. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 4.
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