The Theory of the Leisure Class : An economic study of institutions. [Pecuniary emulation -- Conspicuous leisure -- Conspicuous consumption -- The pecuniary standard of living -- Pecuniary canons of taste -- Dress as an expression of the pecuniary culture -- Industrial exemption and conservatism -- The conservation of archaic taste -- Modern survivals of prowess -- THe belief in luck -- Devout observations -- Survivals of the non-invidious interest -- The higher learning as an expression of the pecuniary culture]
by Veblen, Thorstein
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New York : Vanguard Press, 1932, 1932. Good. 4th Vanguard printing ; viii, 404 pp; grey cloth, no dustjacket ; spine sunned ; foxing ; Contents: Pecuniary emulation -- Conspicuous leisure -- Conspicuous consumption -- The pecuniary standard of living -- Pecuniary canons of taste -- Dress as an expression of the pecuniary culture -- Industrial exemption and conservatism -- The conservation of archaic taste -- Modern survivals of prowess -- THe belief in luck -- Devout observations -- Survivals of the non-invidious interest -- The higher learning as an expression of the pecuniary culture. ; remains of label on front endpaper ; slight knock, else G
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The Theory of the Leisure Class is a book, first published in 1899, by the Norwegian-American economist Thorstein Veblen while he was a professor at the University of Chicago. Veblen claimed he wrote the book as a perceptive personal essay criticizing contemporary culture, rather than as an economics textbook. Critics claim this was an excuse for his failure to cite sources.
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- The Theory of the Leisure Class : An economic study of institutions. [Pecuniary emulation -- Conspicuous leisure -- Conspicuous consumption -- The pecuniary standard of living -- Pecuniary canons of taste -- Dress as an expression of the pecuniary culture -- Industrial exemption and conservatism -- The conservation of archaic taste -- Modern survivals of prowess -- THe belief in luck -- Devout observations -- Survivals of the non-invidious interest -- The higher learning as an expression of the pecuniary culture]
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- Veblen, Thorstein
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- New York : Vanguard Press, 1932
- Date Published
- 1932
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- Pecuniary emulation -- Conspicuous leisure -- Conspicuous consumption -- The pecuniary standard of living -- Pecuniary canons of taste -- Dress as an expression of the pecuniary culture -- Industrial exemption and conservatism -- The conservation of archa
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