Thorstein Veblen Quotes - Famous Quotes by Thorstein Veblen
Born: 1857-07-30
Died: 1929-08-03
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Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
- Thorstein Veblen
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Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
- Thorstein Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)
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In point of substantial merit, the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing and dancing.
- Thorstein Veblen
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Invention is the mother of necessity.
- Thorstein Veblen
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No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.
- Thorstein Veblen
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The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
- Thorstein Veblen
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