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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Chapter One Introductory -- Chapter Two Pecuniary Emulation -- Chapter Three Conspicuous Leisure -- Chapter Four Conspicuous Consumption -- Chapter Five The Pecuniary Standard of Living -- Chapter Six Pecuniary Canons of Taste -- Chapter Seven Dress as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture -- Chapter Eight Industrial Exemption and Conservatism -- Chapter Nine The Conservation of Archaic Traits -- Chapter Ten Modern Survivals of Prowess -- Chapter Eleven The Belief in Luck -- Chapter Twelve Devout Observances -- Chapter Thirteen Survivals of the Non-Invidious Interests -- Chapter Fourteen The Higher Learning as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture.

Intro -- An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation -- Copyright -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- CHAPTER I -- INTRODUCTORY: ON THE STATE AND ITS RELATION TO WAR AND PEACE -- CHAPTER II -- ON THE NATURE AND USES OF PATRIOTISM -- CHAPTER III -- ON THE CONDITIONS OF A LASTING PEACE -- CHAPTER IV -- PEACE WITHOUT HONOUR -- CHAPTER V -- PEACE AND NEUTRALITY -- CHAPTER VI -- ELIMINATION OF THE UNFIT -- CHAPTER VII -- PEACE AND THE PRICE SYSTEM.

Classic of economic and social theory offers a satiric examination of the hollowness and falsity suggested by the term ""conspicuous consumption"" (coined by Veblen), exposing the emptiness of many cherished standards of taste, education, dress, and culture.

Con una mirada fría y penetrante, Veblen hace un comentario vasto e intemporal de la conducta de quienes poseen riqueza o andan en pos de ella. Su libro es un tratado comprensivo sobre esnobismo y presunción social que se aplica tanto a la sociedad norteamericana que le dio origen como a la moderna búsqueda de la opulencia. Esta edición conmemorativa que celebra los 70 años del FCE, recuerda también los 60 años de la primera publicación, en 1944, de este clásico de la sociología. [Texto de la editorial]

Considered the first in-depth critique of consumerism, economist Thorstein Veblen's 1899 book The Theory of the Leisure Class has come to be regarded as one of the great works of economic theory. Using contemporary and anthropological accounts, Veblen held that our economic and social norms are driven by traces of our early tribal life, rather than ideas of utility