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Belief in luck seriously affects the economic efficiency of a community where it is common
Drawn from what Thorstein Veblen said
What Thorstein Veblen actually said
- Thorstein Veblen American economist and sociologist (1857 to 1929)
The belief in luck is a sense of fortuitous necessity in the sequence of phenomena. In its various mutations and expressions, it is of very serious importance for the economic efficiency of any community in which it prevails to an appreciable extent.
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↗The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)gutenberg.org
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