Conspicuous Consumption

Book Author

Thorstein Veblen

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Description

With its wry portrayal of a shallow, materialistic ‘leisure class’ obsessed by clothes, cars, consumer goods and climbing the social ladder, this withering satire on modern capitalism is as pertinent today as when it was written over a century ago.

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Book Author

Thorstein Veblen

Book Series

Penguin Great Ideas

Format

Ebooks

ISBN-13

9780141964317

Language

English

Pages

71

Publication Date

08-24-2005

Publisher

Penguin

About Author

Thorstein (born 'Torsten') Bunde Veblen was a Norwegian-American economist and sociologist. He was famous as a witty critic of capitalism.Veblen is famous for the idea of conspicuous consumption. Cons

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