The Theory of the Leisure Class
by Thorstein Veblen
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About this eBook
- Author
- Veblen, Thorstein, 1857-1929
- Credits
- Produced by David Reed, and David Widger
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HB: Social sciences: Economic theory, Demography
- Subject
- Leisure class
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 833
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/833
- Release Date
- March 1, 1997
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS
- 2.by Thorstein Veblen
- 3.Contents
- 4.Chapter One ~~ Introductory
- 5.Chapter Two ~~ Pecuniary Emulation
- 6.Chapter Three ~~ Conspicuous Leisure
- 7.Chapter Four ~~ Conspicuous Consumption
- 8.Chapter Five ~~ The Pecuniary Standard of Living
- 9.Chapter Six ~~ Pecuniary Canons of Taste
- 10.Chapter Seven ~~ Dress as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture
- 11.Chapter Eight ~~ Industrial Exemption and Conservatism
- 12.Chapter Nine ~~ The Conservation of Archaic Traits
- 13.Chapter Ten ~~ Modern Survivals of Prowess
- 14.Chapter Eleven ~~ The Belief in Luck
- 15.Chapter Twelve ~~ Devout Observances
- 16.Chapter Thirteen ~~ Survivals of the Non-Invidious Interests
- 17.Chapter Fourteen ~~ The Higher Learning as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture
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