23 ordspråk av Thorstein Veblen

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Thorstein Veblen föddes den 30 juli 1857 och dog den 3 augustus 1929 - Norwegian economist
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 "[T]he pulpit [is] the accredited vent for the exudation of effete matter from the cultural organism."

 All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage

 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

 Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure

 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.

 In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing

 It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community

 Labor wants also pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister

 Labor wants also pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister

 Labor wants also pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister

 The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature

 The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods

 The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery

 The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure

 With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper
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