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In this, his best-known work, the controversial American economist and social critic Thorstein Veblen appropriates Darwin's theory of evolution to analyze the modern industrial system. For Veblen, the shallowness and superficiality observed in society results from the tendency to believe that true accomplishment lies in arriving at a condition of ostentatious wealth and status.

Originally published in 1898 by Norwegian-American economist Thorstein Veblen during his tenure at the University of Chicago, Theory of the Leisure Class stands as a groundbreaking critique of consumerism and a pivotal work in economics. Veblen boldly challenges the conventional ideas of utility, revealing how our economic behaviors are intricately connected to social customs that have persisted since our prehistoric ancestors. This insightful exploration not only delves into the nature of consumption but also examines the cultural and societal implications that still resonate today. (Summary ...

In 1890s America Thorstein Veblen attacked a careless acceptance of prevailing social structures, identifying ancient roots for ‘pecuniary culture’ and ‘conspicuous consumption’–realities that promoted materialism and squashed fulfilment. In The Theory of the Leisure Class the worthy Engineer, creating essential products for all, is pitted against the predatory Businessman, exempt from grubby industrial toil and focussed on useless profits.

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Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was an American economist and sociologist. His most famous work, The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (1899), is a treatise on economics and a social critique of consumption and of consumerism, based on the social stratification of people and the division of labor. This work is in the tradition of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations and is rightly considered a classic of economic theory and social history.

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