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- 2007
- year of publication
- 416
- pages
- English (United Kingdom)
- language
- Softcover
- cover
- Publisher
- penguin_classics
- ISBN-13
- 978-01-4018-795-3
- EAN
- 9780140187953
- Publication date
- 2007-05-31
- Book
- The Theory of the Leisure Class · 1 edition
The publisher on this edition
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.