Born: 1970-01-01
Profession: Economist
Nation: American
Biography of Thorstein Veblen
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
Tags: Addiction, Nature, SportsLabor 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.
Tags: Good, Respect, WorkAll business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.
Tags: Analysis, Business, LastIn 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.
Tags: Eyes, Order, StandIt is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.
Tags: Business, Rest, RiskThe outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
Tags: Grow, Research, SeriousBorn in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
Tags: Human, Service, SpiritConspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
Tags: Gentleman, Means, ValuableIn itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
Tags: Beautiful, Life, MenIn point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
Tags: Law, Point, SchoolThe dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.
Tags: Dog, Favor, HimselfThe 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.
Tags: Good, Means, Strength