author: thorstein veblen

Theory of the Leisure Class

... dominant economic and legal feature of the community's life is the institution of private property, one of the salient features of the code of morals is the sacredness of property. There needs no insistence or illustration to gain ...

The Instinct of Workmanship: And the State of Industrial Arts (Classic Reprint)

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The Instinct of Workmanship: And the State of Industrial Arts

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The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of American Institutions and a Social Critique of Conspicuous Consumption (Based on Theories of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer)

... humanities—those branches of learning which are conceived to make for the traditional "culture", character, tastes, and ideals —by those more matter-of-fact branches which make for civic and industrial efficiency. To put the same thing ...

What Veblen Taught - Selected Writings of Thorstein Veblen

... humanities—those branches of learning which are conceived to make for the traditional “culture,” character, tastes, and ideals—by those more matteroffact branches which make for civic and industrial efficiency. To put the same thing in ...

The Secret of Prosperity: The Greatest Writings on the Art of Becoming Rich, Strong & Successful

... without detection . " This was a very short speech , and of no special importance if we omit a single word of four letters ; but , like the schoolboy's pins which saved the lives of thousands of people annually by not getting.

The Science of Prosperity: The Greatest Writings on the Art of Becoming Rich, Strong & Successful

... without detection . " This was a very short speech , and of no special importance if we omit a single word of four letters ; but , like the schoolboy's pins which saved the lives of thousands of people annually by not getting.

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