The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (Modern Library #63.2)
by VEBLEN, Thorstein
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The Theory of the Leisure Class is a book, first published in 1899, by the Norwegian-American economist Thorstein Veblen while he was a professor at the University of Chicago. Veblen claimed he wrote the book as a perceptive personal essay criticizing contemporary culture, rather than as an economics textbook. Critics claim this was an excuse for his failure to cite sources.
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- Title
- The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (Modern Library #63.2)
- Author
- VEBLEN, Thorstein
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1947]
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