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The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (1899)
Thorstein Veblen
Chapter 1 Introductory
"A taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort"

~First read this book in Intellectual History of the United States from 1865 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in the Spring 1986, brilliantly taught by intellectual historian, Professor James Turner. Professor Veblen briefly taught economics at Stanford in the early 20th century. He apparently eschewed the professorial demands of having to deal with students: His office hours were
Wednesday afternoons from 1:00 - 1:05 pm! He also took up residence with a young Stanford co-ed in his cabin in the Santa Cruz Mountains not far from the Stanford Campus.

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