Squirrels, a reluctant bride, a dead economist and the military-industrial complex: These elements may seem unlikely to add up to a refreshing, life-affirming and funny novel that’s climbing the ...

FARGO, N.D. -- The headquarters of a calf-raising facility owned by Rick Millner north of Veblen, S.D., has burned to the ground. Millner, who heads Prairie Ridge Management Co. in Veblen, has ...

If Apple is indeed a Veblen brand (or more accurately, the goods produced by Apple are Veblen Goods) then why not try to raise the price of the next iPhone by $100? For the increase in price might ...

The Veblen effect is named after American economist Thorstein Veblen, who wrote about conspicuous (which means visible) consumption; it means spending of money on luxury goods and services to display ...

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. The Bay Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and ...

As we all know Apple's now the most valuable stock market company based ever. As long as we ignore inflation, don't count the size of the economy it's sitting in and so on. But well done to them, they ...

Elizabeth McKenzie's clever, romantic comedy broadcasts quirkiness right on its cover, with its potentially off-putting title and its illustration of a squirrel instead of the interlocked wedding ...

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Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and has more than three decades of experience as a business executive. He is a professor of economics and has raised more than $4.5 billion in ...

Probably the best-known fact about The Higher Learning in America by Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) is that the author’s original subtitle for it was “A Study in Total Depravity.” By the time the book ...