'Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure...

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by pas...

Veblen's study indicts the nineteenth-century socio-economic system which based class status on t...

Reproduction of the original.

Reproduction of the original.

'The Theory of the Leisure Class' by Thorstein Veblen explores the development of social stratifi...

In The Higher Learning in America, Thorstein Veblen offers a penetrating critique of the modern u...

In seinem wegweisenden Werk 'Theorie der privilegierten Klasse' analysiert Thorstein Veblen die D...

Reproduction of the original. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of re...

1899 was the tail end of the Gilded Age, a time in America of rapid economic expansion that cause...

Veblen has been claimed and rejected both by sociologists and economists as being one of theirs