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The Theory of the Leisure Class (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (Reprint Edition) by Thorstein Veblen, Robert (Introduction By) Lekachman Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 1994 ISBN-10: 0-14-018795-2 / 0140187952 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-018795-3 / 9780140187953 A classic of sociology and economics, originally published in 1899With exquisite irony, Veblen, the "best critic of America that America has produced" (C. Wright Mills), lays bare the hollowness of our canons of taste and culture. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher o |