While serving as a lecturer at the University of Missouri, this man wrote about how the human instinct towards hard work was being wasted, in The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts. One of his works posits that a certain autocratic state during World War I had a temporary technological advantage over democracies, while another work is subtitled "A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men." In addition to "Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution" and (*) The Higher Learning in America, he also wrote about the titular group of intellectuals assuming management positions 
While serving as a lecturer at the University of Missouri, this man wrote about how the human instinct towards hard work was being wasted, in The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts. One of his works posits that a certain autocratic state during World War I had a temporary technological advantage over democracies, while another work is subtitled "A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men." In addition to "Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution" and (*) The Higher Learning in America, he also wrote about the titular group of intellectuals assuming management positions in The Engineers and the Price System. This author of The Theory of Business Enterprise made use of the term "pecuniary emulation" in his most famous work, which also introduced a term that describes why some individuals spend money just for displaying their wealth. "Conspicuous consumption" was coined by, for 10 points, what sociologist, the author of The Theory of the Leisure Class?
While serving as a lecturer at the University of Missouri, this man wrote about how the human instinct towards hard work was being wasted, in The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts.
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