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The Theory of the Leisure Class established that the political economy of a modern society is based upon the social stratification of tribal and feudal societies, rather than upon the merit and social utility and economic utility of individual men and women.
- Thorstein Veblen
- 1899
The leisure class as a whole comprises the noble and the priestly classes, together with much of their retinue. The occupations of the class are correspondingly diversified; but they have the common economic characteristic of being non-industrial. These non-industrial upper-class occupations may be roughly comprised under government, warfare ...
His first book, The Theory of the Leisure Class, subtitled An Economic Study of Institutions, was published in 1899. Still read today, it represents the essence of most of his thinking. Veblen sought to apply Darwin’s evolutionism to the study of modern economic life. The industrial system, he….
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- Thorstein Veblen
- Produced by David Reed, and David Widger
- 1899
- English
Oct 25, 2017 · In The Theory of the Leisure Class, his first and best-known work, Thorstein Veblen challenges some of society's most cherished standards of behavior and, with devastating wit and satire, exposes the hollowness of many of our canons of taste, education, dress, and culture.
- Thorstein
- 1st Edition
In his scathing The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen produced a landmark study of affluent American society that exposes, with brilliant ruthlessness, the habits of production...
The Theory of the Leisure Class bears upon economic theory in general chiefly through its conception of the motives which actuate men in their consumption of goods and services.
