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Norwegian-American Economist, Sociologist, Well-known Critic of Modern Economics, Theorist of the Diminishing Return, and both an Anti-capitalist and Anti-socialist Thinker
: A Norwegian-American economist and sociologist who, during his lifetime, emerged as a well-known critic of capitalism. In his best-known book, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), Veblen coined the concepts of conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure. Historians of economics regard Veblen as the founding father of the institutional economics school. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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Quote #22 on Political Struggle Quotes >> War and Civilization
“While it may well be granted that the warlike raid upon which this community is entering is substantially an access of sportsmanlike exaltation, it is to be noticed that nearly all those who speak for war are at pains to find some colorable motive of another kind. Predatory exploit, simply as such, is not felt to carry its own legitimation, as it should in the apprehension of any species that is primarily of a predaceous character. What meets unreserved approval is such conduct as furthers human life on the whole, rather than such as furthers the invidious or predatory interest of one as against another.”
Source: "The Instinct of Workmanship and the Irksomeness of Labor," by Thorstein Veblen, American Journal of Sociology, volume 4 (1898-99).
"The Instinct of Workmanship and the Irksomeness of Labor," by Thorstein Veblen, American Journal of Sociology, volume 4 (1898-99).
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