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 wealth.


p. 102. - The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)

Thorstein Veblen Quotes

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...