"In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes."
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Thorstein Veblen
Thorstein Bunde Veblen (30 July 1857 β 3 August 1929) was a Norwegian-American sociologist and economist and a leader of the Efficiency Movement, most famous for The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899).
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