 While at Chicago , Innis was exposed to the ideas of Thorstein Veblen , the iconoclastic thinker who drew on his deep knowledge of philosophy and economics to write scathing critiques of contemporary thought and culture . Veblen had left Chicago years before , but his ideas were still strongly felt there . Years later , in an essay on Veblen , Innis praised him for waging war against " standardized static economics " . 
 While at Chicago , Innis was exposed to the ideas of Thorstein Veblen , the iconoclastic thinker <a href='null_relcl' title='1'><mark>who</mark></a>drew on his deep knowledge of philosophy and economics to write scathing critiques of contemporary thought and culture . Veblen <a href='been_done' title='2'><mark>had</mark></a> left Chicago years before , but his ideas <a href='uninflect' title='3'><mark>were</mark></a> still strongly felt there . Years later , in an essay on Veblen , Innis praised him for waging war against " standardized static economics " . 
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