Conspicuous Consumption: Unproductive Consumption of Goods is Honourable (Penguin Great Ideas) - Softcover

Veblen, Thorstein

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141023988 ISBN 13: 9780141023984

Verlag: Penguin, 2005

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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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Thorstein Bunde Veblen (1857-1929) was an American economist and sociologist. Educated at Carleton College, Johns Hopkins University and Yale University, his most famous work, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), from which this selection is taken, is a satiric look at American society. He coined the widely used phrases "conspicuous consumption" and "pecuniary emulation".

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0141023988
• ISBN 13: 9780141023984
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 112
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