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Thorstein Veblen

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


— Thorstein Veblen


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Labor wants 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.


— Thorstein Veblen


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


— Thorstein Veblen


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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.


— Thorstein Veblen


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


— Thorstein Veblen


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In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.


— Thorstein Veblen


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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.


— Thorstein Veblen


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


— Thorstein Veblen


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Invention is the mother of necessity.


— Thorstein Veblen


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


— Thorstein Veblen


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Veblen is famous in the history of economic thought for combining a Darwinian evolutionary perspective with his new institutionalist approach to economic analysis. In early barbarian society this is the difference between the hunter and the gatherer in the tribe but as society matures it is the difference between the landed gentry and the indentured servant. Veblen was sympathetic to state ownership of industry but he had a low opinion of workers and the labor movement and there is disagreement about the extent to which his views are compatible with Marxismsocialism or anarchism.

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