I didn't get past the register wall, but Steiner and Weiss don't seem to have availed themselves sufficiently of the leisure (σχολή) which Veblen wrote about to have run across Cicero's recommendation wrt "counter-signalling": (...and now for some conspicuous citation)
There's an argument Cicero was just carrying forward into latin Aristotle's admonitions to behave as much with Justice and Temperance, as those favourites of the homo novus, Prudence and Fortitude.
I didn't get past the register wall, but Steiner and Weiss don't seem to have availed themselves sufficiently of the leisure (σχολή) which Veblen wrote about to have run across Cicero's recommendation wrt "counter-signalling": (...and now for some conspicuous citation)
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Cic.%20Off.%201...
There's an argument Cicero was just carrying forward into latin Aristotle's admonitions to behave as much with Justice and Temperance, as those favourites of the homo novus, Prudence and Fortitude.