The Theory of the Leisure Class
Veblen, Thorstein We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age.
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1899 was the tail end of the Gilded Age, a time in America of rapid economic expansion that caused a select few to become ultra-wealthy, while millions of commoners struggled in abject poverty. It was against this backdrop that Veblen, an economist and sociologist at the U...