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BUSINESS > economist, social scientist > Thorstein Veblen
The superior gratification...
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The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.
Source: The Theory of the Leisure Class, 1899.
-- Thorstein Veblen, (Jul 30 1857-1929), US economist, social scientist; He applied an evolutionary, dynamic approach to the study of economics in Theory of the Leisure Class, 1899.