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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 #12 on Political Struggle Quotes >> War and Media
“Witness the attractiveness of warfare, both to the barbarian and to the civilized youth. The most common-place recital of a campaigner's experience carries a sweeping suggestion of privation, exposure, fatigue, vermin, squalor, sickness, and loathsome death; the incidents and accessories of war are said to be unsavory, unsightly, unwholesome beyond the power of words; yet warfare is an attractive employment if one only is gifted with a suitable habit of mind. Most sports, and many other polite employments that are distressing but creditable, are evidence to the same effect.”
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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