Thorstein Veblen Quote: No.11
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The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. Thorstein Veblen | Refcard PDF ↑
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- August 3, 1929
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