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托斯丹·凡勃伦:有闲阶级论·摘录 56

托斯丹·凡勃伦《有闲阶级论》· The Theory of the Leisure Class · 投资

Under the selective surveillance of the law of conspicuous waste there grows up a code of accredited canons of consumption, the effect of which is to hold the consumer up to a standard of expensiveness and wastefulness in his consumption of goods and in his employment of time and effort. This growth of prescriptive usage has an immediate effect upon economic life, but it has also an indirect and remoter effect upon conduct in other respects as well. Habits of thought with respect to the expression of life in any given direction unavoidably affect the habitual view of what is good and right in life in other directions also. In the organic complex of habits of thought which make up the substance of an individual's conscious life the economic interest does not lie isolated and distinct from all other interests. Something, for instance, has already been said of its relation to the canons of reputability.

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/833
定位:Excerpt 56 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

在“炫耀性浪费”法则的筛选下,社会长出一套公认的消费规范,要求人在花钱、花时间和精力上都达到昂贵和浪费的标准。这种成文用法直接影响经济生活,也间接影响其他方面的行为。因为人在某个方向上的思维习惯,会不可避免地带到对别的方向“什么好、什么对”的判断里。在构成个人意识生活的思维习惯整体中,经济利益并不孤立,它和别的兴趣纠缠在一起,比如和体面准则的关系。

上下文

凡勃伦《有闲阶级论》分析消费规范如何从炫耀性浪费中形成,并扩散到整个价值判断。

今日一问

你所在圈子的“体面标准”,正在悄悄改变你对哪些非经济事情的看法?

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