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The motive at the root of ownership is emulation
Drawn from what Thorstein Veblen said
What Thorstein Veblen actually said
- Thorstein Veblen American economist and sociologist (1857 to 1929)
The motive that lies at the root of ownership is emulation; and the same motive of emulation continues active in the further development of the institution to which it has given rise and in the development of all those features of the social structure which this institution of ownership touches.
Where this was said
↗The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)gutenberg.org
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