 | Max McConn, Charles Maxwell McConn - Students - 1928 - 298 pages
...by otherwise being possessed of, considerable wealth. It is not simply that experienced business men are, on mature reflection, judged to be the safest...matter of habitual bias. It is due for the greater part to the high esteem currently accorded to men of wealth at large, and especially to wealthy men who... | |
 | Max McConn, Charles Maxwell McConn - Students - 1928 - 294 pages
...remains, the modern civilized community is reluctant to trust its serious interests to others than men of pecuniary substance, who have proved their fitness...otherwise being possessed of, considerable wealth. It is not simply that experienced business men are, on mature reflection, judged to be the safest and... | |
 | Thorstein Veblen - Education - 1918 - 270 pages
...remains, the modern civilized community is reluctant to trust its serious interests to others than men of pecuniary substance, who have proved their fitness...matter of habitual bias. It is due for the greater part to the high esteem currently accorded to men of wealth at large, and especially to wealthy men who... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - Economics - 1993 - 512 pages
...that the modern civilized community is reluctant to trust its serious interests to others than men of pecuniary substance, who have proved their fitness...otherwise being possessed of considerable wealth. It is due for the greater part to the high esteem currently accorded to men of wealth who have succeeded... | |
 | Thorstein Veblen - Business & Economics - 1993 - 438 pages
...remains, the modern civilized community is reluctant to trust its serious interests to others than men of pecuniary substance, who have proved their fitness...acquiring, or by otherwise being possessed of considerable wealth.2 It is not simply that experienced business men are, on mature reflection, judged to be the... | |
 | John Kenneth Galbraith - Business & Economics - 2007 - 584 pages
...remains, the modern civilized community is reluctant to trust its serious interests to others than men of pecuniary substance, who have proved their fitness...acquiring, or by otherwise being possessed of, considerable wealth."6 The principle, having been accepted for private institutions, was applied to public colleges... | |
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It is not simply that experienced businessmen are, on mature reflection, judged to be the safest and most competent trustees of the university's fiscal interests. The preference appears to be almost wholly impulsive, and a matter of habitual bias. It... 