Conspicuous Consumption: Unproductive Consumption of Goods is Honourable (Penguin Great Ideas) - Softcover

Veblen, Thorstein

 
9780141023984: Conspicuous Consumption: Unproductive Consumption of Goods is Honourable (Penguin Great Ideas)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0141023988 ISBN 13: 9780141023984
Verlag: Penguin, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

With its wry portrayal of a shallow, materialistic 'leisure class' obsessed by clothes, cars, consumer goods and climbing the social ladder, this withering satire on modern capitalism is as pertinent today as when it was written over a century ago.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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Verlag
Penguin
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0141023988
ISBN 13 
9780141023984
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
112
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