This man argued that the use of business principles in university administration undermined the ideal of "idle intellectual curiosity". His most important book details how a "tenacity of purpose" remains in place of the "predatory barbarian" in its chapter "The Conservation of Archaic Traits." That book also describes how, in "the regime of individual ownership," status is maintained by "pecuniary emulation." This author of The Higher Learning in America man names a type of economic good that de
This man argued that the use of business principles in university administration undermined the ideal of "idle intellectual curiosity". His most important book details how a "tenacity of purpose" remains in place of the "predatory barbarian" in its chapter "The Conservation of Archaic Traits." That book also describes how, in "the regime of individual ownership," status is maintained by "pecuniary emulation." This author of The Higher Learning in America man names a type of economic good that defies the law of demand and is based on conspicuous consumption. For 10 points, name this sociologist and economist who wrote The Theory of the Leisure Class.
This man argued that the use of business principles in university administration undermined the ideal of "idle intellectual curiosity".
Thorstein Veblen [or Torsten Bunde Veblen]