What Thorstein Veblen thinks about Addiction
American economist and sociologist (1857 to 1929); author of The Theory of the Leisure Class.
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1 dated position, c. 1899, in their own words. Our reading of what Thorstein Veblen has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingA taste for sports perhaps reflects a boyish temperament and marks arrested moral development
Their wordsIt is perhaps truer, or at least more evident, as regards sports than as regards the other expressions of predatory emulation already spoken of, that the temperament which inclines men to them is essentially a boyish temperament. The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development of the man's moral nature.
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