Thorstein Veblen: Cytaty po angielsku (strona 2)

Thorstein Veblen był ekonomista i socjolog amerykański. Cytaty po angielsku.
Thorstein Veblen: 238   Cytatów 3   Polubienia

“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.”

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Thorstein Veblen książka The Theory of the Leisure Class

Źródło: The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), p. 148

“The need of conspicuous waste… stands ready to absorb any increase in the community's industrial efficiency or output of goods.”

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Thorstein Veblen książka The Theory of the Leisure Class

Źródło: The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), p. 110

“The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.”

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Veblen (1908) The Evolution of the Scientific Point of View, University of California Chronicle

“It frequently happens that an element of the standard of living which set out with being primarily wasteful, ends with becoming, in the apprehension of the consumer, a necessary of life.”

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Thorstein Veblen książka The Theory of the Leisure Class

Źródło: The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), p. 99

“It is much more difficult to recede from a scale of expenditure once adopted than it is to extend the accustomed scale in response to an accession of wealth.”

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Thorstein Veblen książka The Theory of the Leisure Class

Źródło: The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), p. 102

“It is a matter of course and of absolute necessity to the conduct of business, that any discretionary businessman must be free to deal or not to deal in any given case; to limit or withhold the equipment under his control, without reservation. Business discretion and business strategy, in fact, has no other means by to work out its aims. So that, in effect, all business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.”

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Veblen (1917) An Inquiry Into the Nature of Peace, and the Terms of Its Perpetuation, p. 168

“The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is… present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful.”

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Thorstein Veblen książka The Theory of the Leisure Class

Źródło: The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), p. 126

“Any evolutionary science… is a close-knit body of theory. It is a theory of a process, of an unfolding sequence… of cumulative causation. The great deserts of the evolutionist leaders… lie… in their having shown how this colorless impersonal sequence of cause and effect can be made use of for theory proper, by virtue of its cumulative character.”

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Źródło: "Why is economics not an evolutionary science?", 1898, pp. 375-378; As cited in: Geoffrey M. Hodgson, "Veblen and darwinism." International review of sociology 14.3 (2004): 343-361

“As increased industrial efficiency makes it possible to procure the means of livelihood with less labor, the energies of the industrious members of the community are bent to the compassing of a higher result in conspicuous expenditure, rather than slackened to a more comfortable pace.”

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Thorstein Veblen książka The Theory of the Leisure Class

Źródło: The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), p. 111

“All ritual has a notable tendency to reduce itself to a rehearsal of formulas.”

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Thorstein Veblen książka The Theory of the Leisure Class

Źródło: The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), p. 122

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

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Thorstein Veblen książka The Theory of the Leisure Class

Źródło: 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 książka The Theory of the Leisure Class

Źródło: 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 książka The Theory of Business Enterprise

Źródło: 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 książka The Theory of the Leisure Class

Źródło: 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 książka The Theory of the Leisure Class

Źródło: 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 książka The Theory of the Leisure Class

Źródło: 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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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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Źródło: 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 książka The Theory of the Leisure Class

Źródło: 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 książka The Theory of the Leisure Class

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