Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen

Theory of the Leisure Class

Thorstein Veblen

288 pages first pub 1899 (editions)

nonfiction economics philosophy sociology informative slow-paced

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Veblen's study indicts the nineteenth-century socio-economic system which based class status on the accumulation of material wealth. More than a century after its original publication, his work still is of surprisingly high relevance, since it cas...

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