TY - GEN AU - Stephen Edgell TI - Veblen in Perspective: His Life and Thought SN - 9781317453659 PY - 2015///0601 CY - Oxford PB - Routledge N2 - This work discusses the impact and contemporary relevance of the work of Thorstein Veblen, as well as the source of his ideas. It suggests that he was one of the first modern sociologists of consumption whose analysis of contemporary display and fashion anticipated later theories and research ER -