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The Theory of the Leisure Class

By: Thorstein Veblen
Narrated by: Mark Sebastian
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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.

Public Domain (P)2020 Museum Audiobooks
19th Century Modern Sociology
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Audio: Narrator sounds like he’s losing his voice about a quarter of the way in, and just powers thru it til the end lol still I found it better than John Lescault’s narration.
Author has a very strong vocabulary, which I enjoy. Interesting way he connects the dots on things we take for granted concerning societal status and money.

Very analytical, but good education.

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