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He has a type of economic good named for him

-- one of several, but possibly only one of two named after an individual.

His son Oswald was a mathematicisn and one of the founders of the Institute for Advanced Study

He is due for a renaissance. He is well known but certainly under-read.

Veblen is well known to anyone who went to college and took a sociology course (he and C. Wright Mills)

A Theory of Thorstein Veblen