Liknande böcker

The division of labour in society
Bok av Émile Durkheim
Our kids : the American dream in crisis
Bok av Robert D. Putnam
Requiem for the American dream : the 10 principles of concentration of w...
Bok av Noam Chomsky
Fattigsafari
Bok av Darren McGarvey
The Economic Consequences of the Peace
Bok av John Maynard Keynes
Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State
Bok av Friedrich Engels
The Great Leveler : Violence and the History of Inequality from the Ston...
Bok av Walter Scheidel
Nätokraterna
Bok av Alexander Bard och Jan Söderqvist

Theory of the leisure class

Bok av Thorstein Veblen
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.