Thorstein Veblen Quote

The taste of the more recent accessions to the leisure class proper and of the middle and lower classes still requires a pecuniary beauty to supplement the aesthetic beauty, even in those objects which are primarily admired for the beauty that belongs to them as natural growths.


Thorstein Veblen, R.H. Tawney, John Maynard Keynes (ed. 1990)


The taste of the more recent accessions to the leisure class proper and of the middle and lower classes still requires a pecuniary beauty to...

The taste of the more recent accessions to the leisure class proper and of the middle and lower classes still requires a pecuniary beauty to...

The taste of the more recent accessions to the leisure class proper and of the middle and lower classes still requires a pecuniary beauty to...

The taste of the more recent accessions to the leisure class proper and of the middle and lower classes still requires a pecuniary beauty to...