There is another curious question that will also have to be left as a moot question, in the absence of more specific information than that which is yet available; more a question of idle curiosity, perhaps, than of substantial consequence. How nearly is it likely that the total gains which accrue to these prosperous business concerns and their investors from their conscientious withdrawal of efficiency will equal the total loss suffered by the community as a whole from the incidental reduction of the output?


The Vested Interests and the Common Man (1919)

Thorstein Veblen Quotes

There is another curious question that will also have to be left as a moot question, in the absence of more specific information than that which is...

There is another curious question that will also have to be left as a moot question, in the absence of more specific information than that which is...

There is another curious question that will also have to be left as a moot question, in the absence of more specific information than that which is...

There is another curious question that will also have to be left as a moot question, in the absence of more specific information than that which is...