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Mason Gaffney <[log in to unmask]>
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Veblen may have foreseen it, but it took the “best and the brightest” to implement it when they destroyed a village in Viet Nam in order to save it.

 

Mason Gaffney

 

From: Societies for the History of Economics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bob Hebert
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It sounds like Veblen…at least that is the first place I would check.

 

From: Societies for the History of Economics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Levy
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2017 8:29 PM
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Subject: [SHOE] Query

 

A colleague without access to SHOE asks that I post the following query:

 

Does anyone know what is the source of this story: in an "uncivilized" society, polygamy is the norm. A "civilized" individual meets a polygamist and tell him that having multiple wives is not virtuous. The polygamist then had all his wives but one killed, so that he could be virtuous too.


 

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David M. Levy
Professor of Economics
George Mason University
Fairfax VA 22030
703-993-2319

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