Quote of the day
A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.
Thorstein Veblen
Born: July 30, 1857
Died: August 3, 1929 (aged 72)
Bio: Thorstein Bunde Veblen was an American economist and sociologist. He was famous as a witty critic of capitalism.
Known for:
- The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)
- The Theory of Business Enterprise (1904)
- Absentee Ownership (1923)
- The Engineers and the Price System (1921)
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