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John Refior"the businessmen who own everything have employed themselves in the economically unproductive practices of conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure, which are useless activities that contribute neither to the economy nor to the material production of useful goods and services. Instead, the middle and working classes support the whole of society"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_the_Leisure_Class
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#Veblen #economics #HistoryOfEconomicThought #inequality #y1899
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_the_Leisure_Class
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#Veblen #economics #HistoryOfEconomicThought #inequality #y1899
Colin DanbyI posted notes on the young #AlfredMarshalland the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos to my research site:
https://sites.google.com/uw.edu/crisesofthewhitebody/home
#Keynes started the myth that Marshall suffered a mental crisis in his mid 20s. There's no evidence of that, but it's interesting that people have run with it -- a breakdown seems to be what the story needs. Why the epidemic of such crises among European intellectuals late 19th and early 20th century?
Now that my following has surged into double digits, a moment of sharing and peeps-seeking. I've put up here:
https://sites.google.com/uw.edu/crisesofthewhitebody/home
some notes and mini-working-papers from a project on body, nation, race, and economy in the 19th and 20th centuries. Most interested in hearing from others working in these areas.
#CharlesBabbage
#HerbertSpencer
#AlfredMarshall
#eugenics
#Neurasthenia
#IrvingFisher
#Keynes
#JamesMeade
#HistoryofEconomicThought
#HistoryoftheBody
After 2 weeks here I‘ll try a better introduction.
I’m working on nation, race, and body in the #HistoryofEconomicThought. Been stuck in the 19th century for a while with #Coleridge, #HerbertSpencer, and #AlfredMarshall et al. Hoping to move soon to the 20th century including the relation between #Neurasthenia and “feeble mindedness” and the rise of #eugenics. #IrvingFisher is on the horizon as is #JamesMeade. Most interested in hearing from anyone working in these areas. 1/2
I’m working on nation, race, and body in the #HistoryofEconomicThought. Been stuck in the 19th century for a while with #Coleridge, #HerbertSpencer, and #AlfredMarshall et al. Hoping to move soon to the 20th century including the relation between #Neurasthenia and “feeble mindedness” and the rise of #eugenics. #IrvingFisher is on the horizon as is #JamesMeade. Most interested in hearing from anyone working in these areas. 1/2