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~ Thorstein Veblen Quotes ~
« on: November 11, 2015, 07:31:01 PM »
Thorstein Veblen Quotes


An American economist and sociologist, and a leader of the so-called institutional economics movement.
Thorstein Bunde Veblen, born Torsten Bunde Veblen (July 30, 1857 – August 3, 1929) was an American economist and sociologist, and a leader of the so-called institutional economics movement. Besides his technical work he was a popular and witty critic of capitalism, as shown by his best known book The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899).

Here are some famous quotes by Thorstein Veblen.




Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.
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Re: ~ Thorstein Veblen Quotes ~
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2015, 07:31:28 PM »
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to a judicious use of sabotage.
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Re: ~ Thorstein Veblen Quotes ~
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2015, 07:31:56 PM »
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.
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Re: ~ Thorstein Veblen Quotes ~
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2015, 07:32:17 PM »
Born in inquity and conceived in sin the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
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