Thorstein Veblen in the Twenty-First Century: A Commemoration of the Theory of the Leisure Class (1899-1999)

by Douglas M. Brown

1999 is the 100th year anniversary of the publication of Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class . This volume commemorates and celebrates Veblen's seminal contribution to the analysis of consumerist capitalism and assesses the book's relevance to the twenty-first century. Veblen's Leisure Class was a pioneering effort to come to terms with industrial capitalism's consumer culture, and it became the foundation for much of contemporary institutional...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1858986133
• ISBN13: 9781858986135
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 50.0" x 25.0"