Theory of the Leisure Class
(2013)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Start Publishing LLC, 2013
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (230 pages)
ISBN/ISSN
9781625581471 MWT17698136, 1625581475 17698136
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The Theory of the Leisure Class is one of the great works of economics as well as the first detailed critique of consumerism. Veblen argues that economic life is driven not by notions of utility, but by social vestiges from pre-historic times. Drawing examples from his time (turn-of-the-century America) and anthropology, he held that much of today's society is a variation on early tribal life. It was in this book that the term conspicuous consumption was first used
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