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The new morality does not consist in saving but in expanding consumption.

Simon Patten

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There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
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Born: 1852
Died: 1922 (aged 70)
Bio: Simon Nelson Patten was an influential economist and the chair of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
Known for:
  1. The new basis of civilization (1907)
  2. Theory of prosperity (1902)
  3. The Development Of English Thought (1899)
  4. The consumption of wealth (1889)
  5. Economic basis of protection (1890)

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