Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
Thorstein Veblen quote The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure.
Thorstein Veblen quote The dog commends himself to our favour by affording play to our propensity for mastery.
Thorstein Veblen quote In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
Thorstein Veblen quote All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.
Thorstein Veblen quote Invention is the mother of necessity.
Thorstein Veblen quote Biography
American economist, 1857-1929
