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MSN Learning & Research Plus: Thorstein Veblen - http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761567203
Short biography.

Review of Keynes' "The Economic Consequences of the Peace" - http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/keynes/vebrev
Unfortunate criticism of Keynes' views on the Treaty of Versalles.

The Theory of the Leisure Class - http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/VEBLEN/veb_toc.html
HTML web version.

The Theory of the Leisure Class - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/833
Text of the first of the major attacks on "conspicuous consumption." Asserts that class warfare is actually nonexistent, because the lower classes try to emulate their upper class superiors through consumerism.

Veblen: The Theory of the Leisure Class: Cover - http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/VEBLEN/veblenhp.html
The first and still foremost of the modern attack on wealth. This book originated the term "conspicuous consumption".

Why is Economics Not an Evolutionary Science - http://prof.mt.tama.hosei.ac.jp/~hhirano/academia/econom.htm
Critical of the idea that economics is a cohesive body of fact.

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