In the rare cases where it occurs, a failure to increase one's visible consumption when the means for an increase are at hand is felt in popular apprehension to call for explanation, and unworthy motives of miserliness are imputed.


p. 103. - The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)

Thorstein Veblen Quotes

In the rare cases where it occurs, a failure to increase one's visible consumption when the means for an increase are at hand is felt in popular...

In the rare cases where it occurs, a failure to increase one's visible consumption when the means for an increase are at hand is felt in popular...

In the rare cases where it occurs, a failure to increase one's visible consumption when the means for an increase are at hand is felt in popular...

In the rare cases where it occurs, a failure to increase one's visible consumption when the means for an increase are at hand is felt in popular...