In modern civilized communities... the members of each stratum accept as their ideal of decency the scheme of life in vogue in the next higher stratu… - Thorstein Veblen

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In modern civilized communities... the members of each stratum accept as their ideal of decency the scheme of life in vogue in the next higher stratum.

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About Thorstein Veblen

Thorstein Bunde Veblen (30 July 1857 – 3 August 1929) was a Norwegian-American sociologist and economist and a leader of the Efficiency Movement, most famous for The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899).

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Native Name: Thorstein Bunde Veblen
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