Chapter 1: Introductory
Opens with the anthropological claim that the institution arose with the emergence of ownership and predatory habits.
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From The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
Veblen traces the leisure class to the transition from peaceable savagery to predatory barbarism, when exploit and seizure became more honorific than industry.
Chapter 1
Distinction between industrial (productive) and pecuniary (predatory/acquisitive) employments runs throughout the book.
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