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The Leisure Class is a 2015 black comedy farce television film by HBO Films about a man who is trying to marry into a wealthy family and his unpredictable brother.
A book by Thorstein Veblen that critiques conspicuous consumption and leisure as social activities of the upper class in modern society. It explores the evolutionary development of social and economic institutions and the conflict between productive and unproductive work.
- Thorstein Veblen
- 1899
A book by Thorstein Veblen that applies Darwin's evolutionism to the study of modern economic life. It introduces the concept of conspicuous consumption, which refers to the motivation to display wealth and status through luxury goods and services.
within what may be comprehensively called the leisure class; and there is a corre-sponding differentiation of employments between these sub-classes. The leisure class as a whole comprises the noble and the priestly classes, together with much of their retinue. The occupations of the class are correspondingly diversified; but they have
May 28, 2009 · In his scathing The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen produced a landmark study of affluent American society that exposes, with brilliant ruthlessness, the habits of production and...
- Thorstein Veblen
- Martha Banta
- reprint, reissue
Mar 1, 1997 · The work analyzes the social structures around leisure and labor, particularly focusing on the concept of a "leisure class" that emerges in cultures marked by significant class distinctions and the exemption of the upper class from productive work.
In his best-known work, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), Veblen appropriated Darwin's theory of evolution to analyze the modern industrial system.
