New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1953. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. David Riesman’s Thorstein Veblen: A Critical Interpretation offers a perceptive examination of the economist and social critic whose ideas on conspicuous consumption and institutional economics reshaped 20th-century thought. Riesman—later famed for The Lonely Crowd—situates Veblen within.....