The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions
A pioneering work of sociology in which the nature of the ruling elite was explored.
The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1918).
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- Author: Thorstein Veblen
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Table of Contents
- BOOKS BY THORSTEIN VEBLEN
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- the theory of the leisure class
- CHAPTER I: Introductory
- CHAPTER II: Pecuniary Emulation
- CHAPTER III: Conspicuous Leisure
- CHAPTER IV: Conspicuous Consumption
- CHAPTER V: The Pecuniary Standard of Living
- CHAPTER VI: Pecuniary Canons of Taste
- CHAPTER VII: Dress as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture
- CHAPTER VIII: Industrial Exemption and Conservatism
- CHAPTER IX: The Conservation of Archaic Traits
- CHAPTER X: Modern Survivals of Prowess
- CHAPTER XI: The Belief in Luck
- CHAPTER XII: Devout Observances
- CHAPTER XIII: Survivals of the Non-Invidious Intrerest
- CHAPTER XIV: The Higher Learning as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture
- INDEX
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