This economist wrote that businessmen deliberately sabotage production in order to increase prices artificially in The Theory of Business Enterprise.
This thinker argued that scientific advances are caused by the human instinct of idle curiosity, and contrasted the instinct of workmanship with the instinct of predation. This economist wrote that businessmen deliberately sabotage production in order to increase prices artificially in The Theory of Business Enterprise. In another work, he argued that the invention of ownership caused people to demonstrate their status through pecunairy emulation and conspicuous consumption. For 10 points, name this economist who wrote The Theory of the Leisure Class.
This thinker argued that scientific advances are caused by the human instinct of idle curiosity, and contrasted the instinct of workmanship with the instinct of predation.
Thorstein {Veblen}