================== HES POSTING ===================== [Posted on behalf of Bill Waller. -- RBE] The reference may be to "A Plea for Cannibalism." This was a weekly declamation exercise presented by Veblen at Carleton College referred to in J. Dorfman, Economic Mind in America, p. 31. There is a mention of the use of butter and unguent on the flesh in Africa as a form of conspicuous consumption in "The Economic Theory of Women's Dress." reprinted in Essays in our Changing Order, L. Ardroozi p.69 Bill Waller Department of Economics Hobart and William Smith Colleges email: [log in to unmask] http://www.hws.edu/ACA/depts/econ/bnwaller/bio.htm ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]