Occupation: Economist Birth: July 30, 1857 Death: August 3, 1929
No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive..
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature..
Instead of investing in the goods as they pass between producer and consumer, as the merchant does, the businessman now invests in the processes of i….
The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction..
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the ….
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….
The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical effic….
Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as br….
The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous penalty of the….
Socialism is a dead horse..
The chief use of servants is the evidence they afford of the master's ability to pay..
The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.
The abjectly poor, and all those person whose energies are entirely absorbed by the struggle for daily sustenance, are conservative because they cann….
Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows..
Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty..
The early ascendancy of leisure as a means of reputability is traceable to the archaic distinction between noble and ignoble employments. Leisure is ….
The domestic life of most classes is relatively shabby, as compared with the éclat of that overt portion of their life that is carried on before the ….
The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is... present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful..
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distres….
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure..
Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing..