The Theory of the Leisure Class
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781315135373
Subjects: Leisure class; Economics; Classe oisive
Description: "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. Veblen uses the leisure class as his example because it is this class that sets the standards followed by every level of society. The sign of membership in the leisure class is exemption from industrial toil and the mark of success is lavish expenditure--"conspicuous consumption" is the famous term he invented to describe somethings that satisfies no real need but is a mark of prestige. The process Veblen describes continues today, albeit in a more circuitous form. The Theory of the Leisure Class is part of an ongoing effort to make available the collected works of Veblen to a present-day audience of students and scholars."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter INTRODUCTION; title: chapter PREFACE; title: chapter 1 Introductory; title: chapter 2 Pecuniary Emulation; title: chapter 3 Conspicuous Leisure; title: chapter 4 Conspicuous Consumption; title: chapter 5 The Pecuniary Standard of Living; title: chapter 6 Pecuniary Canons of Taste; title: chapter 7 Dress as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture; title: chapter 8 Industrial Exemption and Conservatism; title: chapter 9 The Conservation of Archaic Traits; title: chapter 10 Modern Survivals of Prowess; title: chapter 11 The Belief in Luck; title: chapter 12 Devout Observances; title: chapter 13 Survivals of the Non-Invidious Interest; title: chapter 14 The Higher Learning as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture.