What Thorstein Veblen thinks about innovation

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American economist and sociologist (1857 to 1929); author of The Theory of the Leisure Class.

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   Our readingThe role of the leisure class in social evolution is to slow change and preserve the obsolete

   Their wordsThe office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent.

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