The Theory of the Leisure Class (Large Print) - Softcover

Veblen, Thorstein

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1479340707 ISBN 13: 9781479340705

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class takes a look at the social classes concluding that the social make up has continued from the feudal period into the modern era. The habits of production is maintained at the lower levels of society while the lords of the manor employ themselves in economically useless activities of consumption and leisure. Accurately predicting the division of labor by specialty due to an industrial society. Taking a look at fashion, animals, sports and the home Veblen finds each lacking as economically wasteful activities.

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From the Inside Flap:

Almost a century after its original publication, Thorstein Veblen's work is as fresh and relevant as ever. Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class is in the tradition of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan, yet it provides a surprisingly contemporary look at American economics and society. Establishing such terms as "conspicuous consumption" and "pecuniary emulation," Veblen's most famous work has become an archetype not only of economic theory, but of historical and sociological thought as well. As sociologist Alan Wolfe writes in his Introduction, Veblen "skillfully . . . wrote a book that will be read so long as the rich are different from the rest of us; which, if the future is anything like the past, they always will be."

About the Author:

Thorstein Bunde Veblen (1857-1929) was an American economist and sociologist. Educated at Carleton College, Johns Hopkins University and Yale University, his most famous work, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), from which this selection is taken, is a satiric look at American society. He coined the widely used phrases "conspicuous consumption" and "pecuniary emulation".

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1479340707
• ISBN 13: 9781479340705
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 270