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The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions
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Chapter 6 — Pecuniary Canons of Taste
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What does Veblen argue quietly governs our judgments of taste and beauty?
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An innate and universal sense of proportion
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The requirement of conspicuous expensiveness, which we come to perceive as beauty
C
The practical usefulness of an object
D
Standards handed down unchanged from classical antiquity
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