What Thorstein Veblen thinks about Europe

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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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1. c. 1899

   Our readingIn older European communities the hereditary leisure class and the poor are more devout than the industrious middle class

   Their wordsIn the older communities of the European culture, the hereditary leisure class, together with the mass of the indigent population, are given to devout observances in an appreciably higher degree than the average of the industrious middle class, wherever a considerable class of the latter character exists.

   ↗The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book