 | Thorstein Veblen - 1912 - 428 sidor
...innovations as are, according to its standard, fit to survive. Since the consumption of these more excellent goods is an evidence of wealth, it becomes...quantity and quality becomes a mark of inferiority and demerit. This growth of punctilious discrimination as to qualitative excellence in eating, drinking,... | |
 | Veblen Thorstein - 1912 - 420 sidor
...innovations as are, according to its standard, fit to survive. Since the consumption of these more excellent goods is an evidence of wealth, it becomes...quantity and quality becomes a mark of inferiority and demerit. s This growth of punctilious discrimination as to qualiI tative excellence in eating, drinking,... | |
 | Thorstein Veblen - 1912 - 424 sidor
...innovations as are, according to its standard, fit to survive. /Since the consumption of these more excellent goods is an evidence of wealth, it becomes...quantity and quality becomes a mark of inferiority and demerit\ This growth of punctilious discrimination as to qualitative excellence in eating, drinking,... | |
 | Thorstein Veblen - 1912 - 420 sidor
...innovations as are, according to its standard, fit to survive. Since the consumption of these more excellent goods is an evidence of wealth, it becomes...honorific ; and conversely, the failure to consume jn due quantity and quality becomes a mark of inferiority and demerit. This growth of punctilious discrimination... | |
 | Jerome Davis, Harry Elmer Barnes - 1927 - 1094 sidor
...innovations as are, according to its standard, fit to survive. Since the consumption of these more excellent goods is an evidence of wealth, it becomes...quantity and quality becomes a mark of inferiority and demerit. This growth of punctilious discrimination as to qualitative excellence in eating, drinking,... | |
 | Thorstein Veblen - 1993 - 438 sidor
...innovations as are, according to its standard, fit to survive. Since the consumption of these more excellent goods is an evidence of wealth, it becomes...quantity and quality becomes a mark of inferiority and demerit. This growth of punctilious discrimination as to qualitative excellence in eating, drinking,... | |
 | Melvin Silverman - 1996 - 536 sidor
...weapons and accouterments, amusements, amulets, and idols or divinities since the consumption of the more excellent goods is an evidence of wealth, it becomes...quantity and quality becomes a mark of inferiority and demerit. (Veblen, 1935. pp. 73-74) Conspicuous consumption behaviors are alive and well today. And... | |
 | Ross B. Emmett - 2002 - 480 sidor
...innovations as are, according to its standard, fit to survive. Since the consumption of these more excellent goods is an evidence of wealth, it becomes...quantity and quality becomes a mark of inferiority and demerit. This growth of punctilious discrimination as to qualitative excellence in eating, drinking,... | |
 | David Alan Nibert - 2002 - 292 sidor
...character" of those who live at subsistence levels is similarly made obvious to all. As Veblen noted, "the failure to consume in due quantity and quality becomes a mark of inferiority and demerit." 43 Wearing the hair of other animals also has long served as a display of one's superior... | |
 | Peter Marber - 2003 - 294 sidor
...wealth," he wrote in his often-quoted 1899 piece "Conspicuous Consumption," "[buying certain goods] becomes honorific; and conversely, the failure to...quantity and quality becomes a mark of inferiority and demerit." 16 Author Harold Perkin echoes Veblen's observation: "If consumer demand, then, was key to... | |
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Since the consumption of these more excellent goods is an evidence of wealth, it becomes honorific; and conversely, the failure to consume in due quantity and quality becomes a mark of inferiority and demerit. 
