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Thorstein Veblen

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Person.png Thorstein Veblen   Sourcewatch WikiquoteRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
Born1857-07-30
 Cato,  Wisconsin
Died1929-08-03 (Age 72)
 Sand Hill Road,  Menlo Park,  California
Nationality US
Alma mater •  Carleton College
•  Johns Hopkins University
•  Yale University
InterestsConsumerism.jpg consumerism

“Veblen may be said to have betrayed the betrayers by thinking unholy thoughts on holy ground and by using the ritualistic paraphernalia of scholarship — ordinarily employed in buttressing the social order and impressing the gullible — for profoundly subversive purposes.”
Daniel Aaron [1]

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References

  1. https://pinkindustry.wordpress.com/sociology/#_ftn17 Men of Good Hope, (Oxford University Press, 1951) pp. 208-245


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