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The Theory of the Leisure Class » (Reprint)
Authors: Thorstein Veblen, Robert Lekachman
ISBN-13: 9780140187953, ISBN-10: 0140187952
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: February 1994
Edition: Reprint
Author Biography: Thorstein Veblen
Alan Wolfe is the director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College and the author of One Nation, After All and Moral Freedom.
Book Synopsis
Classic of economic and social theory offers satiric examination of the hollowness and falsity suggested by the term "conspicuous consumption," exposing the emptiness of many standards of taste, education, dress, and culture.
Booknews
**** Reprint of the classic Macmillan text of 1889. Recommended by Books for College Libraries 3rd ed.. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Table of Contents
| Biographical Note | ||
| Introduction | ||
| I | Introductory | 3 |
| II | Pecuniary Emulation | 18 |
| III | Conspicuous Leisure | 28 |
| IV | Conspicuous Consumption | 52 |
| V | The Pecuniary Standard of Living | 76 |
| VI | Pecuniary Canons of Taste | 85 |
| VII | Dress as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture | 123 |
| VIII | Industrial Exemption and Conservatism | 138 |
| IX | The Conservation of Archaic Traits | 155 |
| X | Modern Survivals of Prowess | 179 |
| XI | The Belief in Luck | 201 |
| XII | Devout Observances | 214 |
| XIII | Survivals of the Non-Invidious Interest | 243 |
| XIV | The Higher Learning as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture | 265 |
| Notes | 293 | |
| Reading Group Guide | 297 |
Subjects
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