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The Theory of the Leisure Class (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)

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The story of Veblen’s life seems sad to the modern reader: he had much trouble adapting himself to American life. Born of Norwegian parents in Wisconsin, educated at Carleton College, Johns Hopkins, and Yale, Veblen could find no appropriate academic employment until about seven years after he had been awarded his doctorate. Then, as a teacher at the University of Chicago and Stanford, his eccentricities and irregularities made him socially unacceptable. THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS was the first of a series of books in which he examined the...

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