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Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions [1899]

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The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1918).


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A pioneering work of sociology in which the nature of the ruling elite was explored.

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