PS Veblen would have been grandmaster of Twitter, if alive today.
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One of the most insightful, scathing, & hilarious critiques of modern academia was published a century ago: Thorstein Veblen's 'The higher learning in America: A study in total depravity' (1918, original subtitle)https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2015/04/15/review-thorstein-veblen-higher-learning-america-first-annotated-edition …
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Over the past few decades Veblen has been coming into vogue .. this is another clever critique here of the leisure class
#conspicuousconsumption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_the_Leisure_Class …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I need this book!
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