23 ordspråk av Thorstein Veblen

Thorstein Veblen

Thorstein Veblen föddes den 30 juli 1857 och dog den 3 august 1929 - Norwegian economist
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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Med undantag för självbevarandets instinkt är benägenheten för efterapning sannolikt den starkaste och mest påpassliga och ihärdiga av de ekonomiska motiv som tillhör.

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

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.

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

"[T]he pulpit [is] the accredited vent for the exudation of effete matter from the cultural organism."

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

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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