The Theory of the Leisure Class - Thorstein Veblen Introduction by
Robert Lekachman
Preface
Chapter I: Introductory
Chapter II: Pecuniary Emulation
Chapter III: Conspicuous Leisure
Chapter IV: Conspicuous Consumption
Chapter V: The Pecuniary Standards of Living
Chapter VI: Pecuniary Canons of Taste
Chapter VII: Dress as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture
Chapter VIII: Industrial Exemption and Conservatism
Chapter IX: The Conservation of Archaic Traits
Chapter X: Modern Survivals of Prowess
Chapter XI: The Belief in Luck
Chapter XII: Devout Observances
Chapter XIII: Survivals of the Non-Invidious Interest
Chapter XIV: The Higher Learning as an Expression of the Pecuniary
Culture
Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was a Norwegian-American sociologist
and economist and a leader of the Efficiency Movement. In 1919,
Veblen, along with Charles Beard, James Harvey Robinson and John
Dewey, helped found the New School for Social Research (known today
as New School University).
Robert Lekachman was a professor of economics at Lehman College,
City University of New York, and is the author of The Age of Keynes
and Capitalism for Beginners.
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