num_pages: 1
description: "With brilliance and biting wit, one of America's most original thinkers criticizes man's unshakable allegiance to social standards based not upon honest productivity, but on the belief that real achievement consists in approximating the status of the leisure class - individuals who proclaim their position by an ostentatious display of wealth and leisure." - from rear cover.
language: English
title: The Theory of the Leisure Class
titlecomplete: The Theory of the Leisure Class
genres: Classics, History, Philosophy, Economics, Sociology, Academic, Nonfiction, Theory, Social Science, Politics
ratings_count: 3594
publisher: Signet