Thorstein Veblen
Thorstein Veblen
Thorstein Bunde Veblenwas an American economist and sociologist. He was famous as a witty critic of capitalism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth30 July 1857
CityCato, WI
CountryUnited States of America
eye class order
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.
technology machines use
The machine technology takes no cognizance of conventionally established rules of precedence; it knows neither manners nor breeding and can make no use of any of the attributes of worth.
names instant-gratification gratification
Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.
mean employment noble
The early ascendancy of leisure as a means of reputability is traceable to the archaic distinction between noble and ignoble employments. Leisure is honourable and becomes imperative partly because it shows exemption from ignoble labour.
tariffs libertarian typical
A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade.
school law dancing
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
community risk gains
It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost, and at any risk to the rest of the community.
sports men addiction
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
ownership arise wells
From the ownership of women the concept of ownership extends itself to include the products of their industry, and so there arises the ownership of things as well as of persons.
horse politics socialism
Socialism is a dead horse.
wealth social mark
Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing.
believe editors firsts
The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe...
patriotism politics spirit
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
would-be business-trips ifs
No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.