Theory of the Leisure Class
Price
$39.95
Format
Hardcover
Pages
412
Publisher
Amereon Ltd
Publication Date
May 1, 2000
ISBN-13
978-0848816599
Dimensions
6 x 1 x 9 inches
Weight
1.3 pounds
Description
About the Author Alan Wolfe is the director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College and the author of One Nation, After All and Moral Freedom .
Features & Highlights
- 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.
