{
  "type": "book",
  "site": {
    "name": "The Book Quiver",
    "language": "en-US",
    "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com"
  },
  "formats": "Every page has two versions with the same data: JSON (the page address + .json) and markdown (the page address + .md). Append .json or .md to any `url` in this document.",
  "title": "The Theory of the Leisure Class",
  "subtitle": null,
  "slug": "the-theory-of-the-leisure-class",
  "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-lekachman/the-theory-of-the-leisure-class",
  "json": "https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-lekachman/the-theory-of-the-leisure-class.json",
  "markdown": "https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-lekachman/the-theory-of-the-leisure-class.md",
  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Robert Lekachman",
      "slug": "robert-lekachman",
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-lekachman"
    },
    {
      "name": "Thorstein Veblen",
      "slug": "thorstein-veblen",
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/thorstein-veblen"
    }
  ],
  "language": "en_GB",
  "original_title": null,
  "original_language": null,
  "first_published": "2007-05-31",
  "genres": [],
  "series": [],
  "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/penguin-classics/robert-lekachman/the-theory-of-the-leisure-class_978-01-4018-795-3.jpg?v=2026-04-23%2001%3A51%3A07",
  "description": "This classic of economic thought is a scathing critique of American snobbery and wastefulness. Chief among the practices that Veblen so wittily satirizes is \" conspicuous consumption\", a pattern of behaviour that still flourishes among us.",
  "editions": [
    {
      "title": "The Theory of the Leisure Class",
      "subtitle": null,
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-lekachman/the-theory-of-the-leisure-class/9781138539099",
      "publisher": "Routledge",
      "publisher_series": [],
      "translators": [],
      "medium": "paper",
      "duration_seconds": null,
      "narrators": [],
      "illustrators": [],
      "cover_artists": [],
      "isbn": "978-11-3853-909-9",
      "pages": 282,
      "published": "2017-09-20",
      "language": "en_US",
      "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/routledge/thorsten-veblen/the-theory-of-the-leisure-class_978-11-3853-909-9-32436644.webp?v=2026-11-02%2003%3A40%3A35"
    },
    {
      "title": "The Theory of the Leisure Class",
      "subtitle": null,
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-lekachman/the-theory-of-the-leisure-class/9780140187953",
      "publisher": "Penguin Classics",
      "publisher_series": [],
      "translators": [],
      "medium": "paper",
      "duration_seconds": null,
      "narrators": [],
      "illustrators": [],
      "cover_artists": [],
      "isbn": "978-01-4018-795-3",
      "pages": 416,
      "published": "2007-05-31",
      "language": "en_GB",
      "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/penguin-classics/robert-lekachman/the-theory-of-the-leisure-class_978-01-4018-795-3.jpg?v=2026-04-23%2001%3A51%3A07"
    }
  ],
  "other_languages": [],
  "characters": [],
  "chapters": []
}