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

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

The ceremonial differentiation of the dietary is best seen in the use of intoxicating beverages and ...

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The Theory of the Leisure Class

The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the mi...

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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...

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Born in inquity and conceived in sin the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human insti...

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The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecu...

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In order to stand well in the eyes of the community it is necessary to come up to a certain somewh...

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

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Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or usef...

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Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.

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Thorstein Veblen

Economist

Born: 1857-07-30

Died: 1929-08-03

Thorstein Bunde Veblen (30 July 1857 – 3 August 1929) was a Norwegian-American sociologist and economist and a leader of the Efficiency Movement, most famous for The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899).More