 | United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce - 1961 - 192 pages
...cunning was succeeded by more refined kinds of cunning. The more important of these go by the names of business shrewdness, strategy, and diplomacy, none...is completely honeycombed with deception." — "The Psychologic Basis of Social Economics," by LF Ward. Opponents of fair trade legislation are so blinded... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - 1962 - 184 pages
...cunning was succeeded by more refined kinds of cunning. The more important of these go by the names of business shrewdness, strategy, and diplomacy, none...is completely honeycombed with deception." — "The Psychologic Basis of Social Economics," by LF Ward. Opponents of fair trade legislation are so blinded... | |
 | Ross B. Emmett - 2002 - 480 pages
...in all its branches are spent on this competitive disturbance of trade, they are, on the whole, of and diplomacy, none of which differ from ordinary...is completely honeycombed with deception." — "The Psychologic Basis of Social Economics," Ann. of Am. Acad., vol. III. pp. 83-84 [475-470]. 1 Fogg-Meade,... | |
 | Thorstein Veblen - 2005 - 229 pages
...cunning was succeeded by more refined kinds of cunning. The more important of these go by the names of business shrewdness, strategy, and diplomacy, none...this way social life is completely honeycombed with deception."—"The Psychologic Basis of Social Economics," Ann. of Am. Acad., vol. Ill. pp. 83-84 [475-476],... | |
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... which the latter was subjected to man. This method was that of the ambush and the snare. Its ruling principle was cunning. Its object was to deceive, circumvent, ensnare, and capture. Low animal cunning was succeeded by more refined kinds of cunning.... 