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Great Ideas Conspicuous Consumption
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Great Ideas Conspicuous Consumption Paperback - 2005

by Veblen, Thorstein

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  • Title Great Ideas Conspicuous Consumption
  • Author Veblen, Thorstein
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Paperback
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 144
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, Limited, London
  • Date 2005
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 8371445-6
  • ISBN 9780141023984 / 0141023988
  • Weight 0.16 lbs (0.07 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.13 x 4.38 x 0.23 in (18.11 x 11.13 x 0.58 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.52

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About the author

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.

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