The Theory of the Leisure Class
by Veblen, Thorstein
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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North Tonawanda, New York, United States
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About This Item
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1973. Hardcover. A tight solid copy with faint cigarette odor. ; 8vo, green genuine leather with gilt dec. Covers, gilt dec. Spine with gilt lettering, raised bands spine, all page edges gilt, moire eps, attached ribbon page marker, color frontispiece, 241pp. , index. Introduction by John Kenneth Galbraith. .
Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Editions Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5458
- Title
- The Theory of the Leisure Class
- Author
- Veblen, Thorstein
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Publisher
- The Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, CT
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- EASTON, PRESS, NON-FICTION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Economics;
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