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I'm always surprised this guy isn't more well known. If we're indeed living in a second Gilded Age, it's hard to imagine a writer more due for a renaissance.
He has a type of economic good named for him
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
-- one of several, but possibly only one of two named after an individual.
His son Oswald was a mathematicisn and one of the founders of the Institute for Advanced Study
He is due for a renaissance. He is well known but certainly under-read.
Veblen is well known to anyone who went to college and took a sociology course (he and C. Wright Mills)