But history records more frequent and more spectacular instances of the triumph of imbecile institutions over life and culture than of peoples who have by force of instinctive insight saved themselves alive out of a desperately precarious institutional... The Quarterly Journal of Economics - Page 25edited by - 1915Full view - About this book
| Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess - Social sciences - 1915 - 900 pages
...of institutions and of the habits in which social institutions become intrenched. "History records more frequent and more spectacular instances of the...as now faces the peoples of Christendom" (p. 25). Yet hope may be derived from the fact that "changes are going forward constantly and incontinently... | |
| Thorstein Veblen - Germany - 1915 - 350 pages
...parental bent — and the resisting force of institutional bonds. 'History,' says Mr. Veblen, 'records more frequent and more spectacular instances of the...instance, as now faces the peoples of Christendom." " — Quarterly Journal of Economics. PUBLISHED BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue... | |
| Thorstein Veblen - Peace - 1917 - 400 pages
...parental bent — and the resisting force of institutional bonds. 'History,' says Mr. Veblen, 'records more frequent and more spectacular instances of the...instance, as now faces the peoples of Christendom.' " — Quarterly Journal of Economics. PUBLISHED BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue... | |
| Leverett T. Smith (Jr.) - Baseball - 2004 - 302 pages
...This is the nature of reform. Veblen reveals this in the tone of the following. But history records more frequent and more spectacular instances of the...instance, as now faces the peoples of Christendom, (p. 25) Human nature best expressed itself in the savage mode of culture, and Veblen looked there to show how... | |
| Warner Berthoff - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 360 pages
...without substantial retardation. But history records more frequent and more spectacular instances or the triumph of imbecile institutions over life and...instance, as now faces the peoples of Christendom.* It is against this considered historical pessimism (not untimely in 1914, or in 1965) that Veblen's... | |
| Randy Pearl Albelda, Christopher Eaton Gunn, William Waller - Business & Economics - 1987 - 362 pages
...social and economic problems. This optimism is tempered by Veblen's observation, "But history records more frequent and more spectacular instances of the...a desperately precarious institutional situation" (Thorstein B. Veblen, The Instinct of Workmanship [New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1964], p. 25). The... | |
| Marc Reed Tool, Warren Joseph Samuels - Business & Economics - 1989 - 448 pages
...The Theory of Economic Progress (1944) (New York: Schocken Books. 1962), pp. x, 176. "History records more frequent and more spectacular instances of the...imbecile institutions over life and culture than of people who have . . . saved themselves alive out of a desperately precarious institutional situation,... | |
| David Hamilton - Economics - 1970 - 158 pages
...current of life and cultural growth go on, with or without substantial retardation. But history records more frequent and more spectacular instances of the...situation, such, for instance as now faces the peoples of Christendom.53 As is clear from the above, Veblen held that progress or cultural growth will take place... | |
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