Thorstein Veblen
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Veblen was an American economist and sociologist and a well-known critic of capitalism in his lifetime.
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5 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 30 Jul 1857, Cato, Wisconsin, to Norwegian immigrant parents (opens wiqqi.app)
- Died: 3 Aug 1929, Menlo Park, California (opens wiqqi.app)
- Education: Carleton College (graduated 1880); Johns Hopkins; PhD, Yale (1884) (opens wiqqi.app)
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20 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Where people are habitually compared on efficiency, the instinct of workmanship turns into invidious comparison (opens korrents.com)
“Wherever the circumstances or traditions of life lead to an habitual comparison of one person with another in point of efficiency, the instinct of workmanship works out in an emulative or invidious comparison of persons.”
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A leisure class emerges at the same time as ownership, because both come from the same economic forces (opens korrents.com)
“In the sequence of cultural evolution the emergence of a leisure class coincides with the beginning of ownership. This is necessarily the case, for these two institutions result from the same set of economic forces.”
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The motive at the root of ownership is emulation (opens korrents.com)
“The motive that lies at the root of ownership is emulation; and the same motive of emulation continues active in the further development of the institution to which it has given rise and in the development of all those…”
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Where people are habitually compared on efficiency, the instinct of workmanship turns into invidious comparison (opens korrents.com)