The Theory of the Leisure Class: With an Introd. by John Kenneth Galbraith

by Thorstein Veblen

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Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0486280624, Paperback)

Classic of economic and social theory offers a satiric examination of the hollowness and falsity suggested by the term "conspicuous consumption" (coined by Veblen), exposing the emptiness of many cherished standards of taste, education, dress and culture.

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