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Stotting handicaps the individual, imposing a significant cost on the ability to move. But the cost
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012826.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ty. Stotting appears excessive, but in fact is an honest signal of power. It is, to borrow a phrase from the economist Thorstein Veblen, "conspicuous consumption." By flaunting their superior condition, throwing away resources just because they can, these stotting gazelles benef...

Explaining our taste for excessive harm
document TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012747.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ity. Stotting appears excessive, but in fact is an honest signal of power. It is, to borrow a phrase from the economist Thorstein Veblen, "conspicuous consumption." By flaunting their superior condition, throwing away resources just because they can, these stotting gazelles benef...

How Come This Book?
document TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010912.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

… 1871, in a childish feud for which Menger was at least as much to blame. If you must answer your critics, be gracious. Thorstein Veblen, an institutionalist from Wisconsin, coined the term “neoclassicism” for what we now call marginalism. He made fun of it for missing the role o...