The Theory of the Leisure Class (Thrift Editions)

by Thorstein Veblen (Author), Robert Bruce Lindsay (Author)

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  Paperback
  1994

  $8.95

• New

  Paperback
  1995

  $12.64

  This classic of economic thought is a scathing critique of American snobbery and wastefulness. Chief among the practices that Veblen so wittily satirizes is 'conspicuous consumption', a pattern of behaviour that still flourishes among us.