The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of InstitutionsB. W. Huebsch, 1912 - 404 psl. |
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The Theory of the Leisure Class– An Economic Study of Institutions Thorstein Veblen Visos knygos peržiūra - 1928 |
The Theory of the Leisure Class– An Economic Study of Institutions Thorstein Veblen Ribota peržiūra - 1926 |
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æsthetic animistic anthropomorphic cults appreciable aptitudes archaic beauty character characteristic chiefly civilised commonly conservatism conservative conspicuous consumption conspicuous leisure conspicuous waste consumer degree devout observances direction divinity dominant dress economic effect efficiency effort element employments emulation especially ethnic types everyday evidence exigencies expenditure expression fact gentleman of leisure ground habit of mind habits of thought hand higher honorific honour human nature ideal imputed individual industrial community industrial process instinct of workmanship institutions invidious comparison labour learning leisure class less manual labour matter men's ment methods modern industrial motive munity nomic non-invidious organisations peaceable pecuniary culture pecuniary decency pecuniary reputability persons phase point of view population predaceous predatory culture present priestly productive propensity proprieties purpose quasi-peaceable regards relation respect scheme selective sense servants serve social spiritual stage standard substantial sumption survival tabu temperament tion to-day traits true usage vicarious consumption vicarious leisure vogue wealth women
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298 psl. - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.
75 psl. - Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
95 psl. - It is also noticeable that the serviceability of consumption as a means of repute, as well as the insistence on it as an element of decency, is at its best in those portions of the community where the human contact of the individual is widest and the mobility of the population is greatest. Conspicuous consumption claims a relatively larger portion of the income of the urban than of the rural population, and the claim is also more imperative. The result is that, in order to keep up a decent appearance,...
26 psl. - Ownership began and grew into a human institution on grounds unrelated to the subsistence minimum. The dominant incentive was from the outset the invidious distinction attaching to wealth, and, save temporarily and by exception, no other motive has usurped the primacy at any later stage of the development.
26 psl. - The motive that lies at the root of ownership is emulation: and the same motive of emulation continues active in the further development of the institution to which it has given rise and in the development of all those features of the social structure which this institution of ownership touches, The possession of wealth confers honour, it is an invidious distinction. Nothing equally cogent can be said for the consumption of goods, nor for any other conceivable incentive to acquisition. and especially...
99 psl. - It would be hazardous to assert that a useful purpose is ever absent from the utility of any article or of any service, however obviously its prime purpose and chief element is conspicuous waste; and it would be only less hazardous to assert of any primarily useful product that the element of waste is in no way concerned in its value, immediately or remotely.
28 psl. - ... that esteem ceases to be awarded on the basis of other, more direct evidence of prowess ; not that successful predatory aggression or warlike exploit ceases to call out the approval and admiration of the crowd, or to stir the envy of the less successful competitors ; but the opportunities for gaining distinction by means of this direct manifestation of superior force grow less available both in scope and frequency. At the same time opportunities for industrial aggression, and for the accumulation...
23 psl. - ... apparently with the seizure of female captives. The original reason for the seizure and appropriation of women seems to have been their usefulness as trophies. The practice of seizing women from the enemy as trophies, gave rise to a form of ownership-marriage, resulting in a household with a male head. This was followed by an extension of slavery to other captives and inferiors, besides women, and by an extension of ownership-marriage to other women than those seized from the enemy. The...
174 psl. - loveliness," of the styles in vogue at any given time is transient and spurious only is attested by the fact that none of the many shifting fashions will bear the test of time. When seen in the perspective of half-a-dozen years or more, the best of our fashions strike us as grotesque, if not unsightly. Our transient attachment to whatever happens to be the latest rests on other than aesthetic grounds, and lasts only until our abiding aesthetic sense has had time to assert itself and reject this latest...
30 psl. - In any community where goods are held in severally it is necessary, in order to his own peace of mind, that an individual should possess as large a portion of goods as others with whom he is accustomed to class himself , and it is extremely gratifying to possess something more than others.