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The theory of the leisure class

Thorstein Veblen ; with an introduction by C. Wright Mills

Transaction Publishers, c1992

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Reprint, with new introdduction

Originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1899

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In The Theory of the Leisure Class, his first and best-known work, Thorstein Veblen challenges some of society's most cherished standards of behavior and, with devastating wit and satire, exposes the hollowness of many of our canons of taste, education, dress, and culture. Veblen uses the leisure class as his example because it is this class that sets the standards followed by every level of society. The sign of membership in the leisure class is exemption from industrial toil and the mark of success is lavish expenditure-"conspicuous consumption" is the famous term he invented to describe somethings that satisfies no real need but is a mark of prestige. The process Veblen describes continues today, albeit in a more circuitous form.The Theory of the Leisure Class is part of an ongoing effort to make available the collected works of Veblen to a present-day audience of students and scholars.

Table of Contents

  • 1: Introductory
  • 2: Pecuniary Emulation
  • 3: Conspicuous Leisure
  • 4: Conspicuous Consumption
  • 5: The Pecuniary Standard of Living
  • 6: Pecuniary Canons of Taste
  • 7: Dress as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture
  • 8: Industrial Exemption and Conservatism
  • 9: The Conservation of Archaic Traits
  • 10: Modern Survivals of Prowess
  • 11: The Belief in Luck
  • 12: Devout Observances
  • 13: Survivals of the Non-Invidious Interest
  • 14: The Higher Learning as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture

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  • NCID
    BA14151620
  • ISBN
    • 1560005629
  • LCCN
    91023747
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New Brunswick (U.S.A.) ; London (U.K.)
  • Pages/Volumes
    xx, 21-261 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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