[veb-luh
n] 
| 1. | Oswald, 1880–1960, U.S. mathematician. |
| 2. | Thor⋅stein [thawr-stahyn, -stuhn] , 1857–1929, U.S. economist and sociologist. |
| Veb·len (věb'lən) American economist who described a fundamental conflict between the provision of goods and the making of money. In his popular study The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) he coined the phrase conspicuous consumption. |