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“La moda nasce dall'effimero e vi ritorna. citazione necessaria”

Thorstein Veblen

“L'abito che costa poco fa il monaco che vale poco.”

Thorstein Veblen

Origine: Da La teoria della classe agiata (1899), Bur Rizzoli, Milano, 1981, p. 159.

“La burocrazia è l'incapacità addestrata.”

Thorstein Veblen

Origine: Citato in Focus, n. 114, pag. 151.

“La ricchezza è ora intrinsecamente onorevole e conferisce onore a chi la possiede.”

Thorstein Veblen

Origine: Citato in AA.VV., Il libro della sociologia, traduzione di Martina Dominici, Gribaudo, 2018, p. 218. ISBN 9788858015827

Thorstein Veblen: Frasi in inglese

“The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.”

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Thorstein Veblen libro The Theory of the Leisure Class

Origine: The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), p. 26

“A standard of living is of the nature of habit. …it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous expenditure that has once become habitual.”

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Thorstein Veblen libro The Theory of the Leisure Class

Origine: The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), p. 106

“Without much preliminary exposition and without feeling himself to be out of touch with his contemporaries, Darwin set to work to explain species in terms of the process out of which they have arisen, rather than out of the prime cause to which the distinction between them may he due.”

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Thorstein Veblen libro The Theory of Business Enterprise

Origine: The Theory of Business Enterprise, 1904, p. 369

“While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time.”

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Thorstein Veblen libro The Theory of the Leisure Class

Origine: The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), p. 51

“From the ownership of women the concept of ownership extends itself to include the products of their industry, and so there arises the ownership of things as well as of persons.”

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Thorstein Veblen libro The Theory of the Leisure Class

Origine: The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), p. 23

“The chief use of servants is the evidence they afford of the master's ability to pay.”

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Thorstein Veblen libro The Theory of the Leisure Class

Origine: The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), p. 62

“In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.”

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Thorstein Veblen

Veblen (1918) The Higher Learning in America. p. 155

“Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.”

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Origine: Absentee Ownership (1923), p. 38

“In modern civilized communities… the members of each stratum accept as their ideal of decency the scheme of life in vogue in the next higher stratum.”

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Thorstein Veblen libro The Theory of the Leisure Class

Origine: The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), p. 84

“In the modern industrial communities… the apparatus of living has grown so elaborate and cumbrous… that the consumers of these things cannot make way with them in the required manner without help.”

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Thorstein Veblen libro The Theory of the Leisure Class

Origine: The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), p. 65-66

“In the rare cases where it occurs, a failure to increase one's visible consumption when the means for an increase are at hand is felt in popular apprehension to call for explanation, and unworthy motives of miserliness are imputed.”

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Thorstein Veblen libro The Theory of the Leisure Class

Origine: The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), p. 103

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