The Theory of the Leisure Class : Penguin Modern Classics - THORSTEIN VEBLEN

The Theory of the Leisure Class

By: THORSTEIN VEBLEN, Robert Lekachman, Thorsten Veblen

Paperback | 2 March 1998 | Edition Number 1

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A classic of sociology and economics, originally published in 1899

With exquisite irony, Veblen, the "best critic of America that America has produced" (C. Wright Mills), lays bare the hollowness of our canons of taste and culture. 

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