... Thorstein Veblen A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen is a publication of the Pen... ... document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...ylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Veblen The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen Chapter O Chapter O Chapter... ...The oc- cupations of the class are correspondingly diversified; but 4 The Theory of the Leisure Class they have the common economic characteristic of... ...ake account of. Such con- sumption may of course be conceived to serve the consumer’s physical wants — his physical comfort — or his so-called higher ... ...he way of dwellings, furniture, bric- a-brac, wardrobe and meals, that the consumers of these things cannot make way with them in the required manner ... ...xuries, in the true sense, is a consumption directed to the comfort of the consumer himself, and is, therefore, a mark of the master. Any such consump... ... attached to their persons a more or less comprehensive group of vicarious consumer in the persons of their wives and chil- dren, their servants, reta... ...or uniform. With the disappearance of servitude, the number of vi- carious consumers attached to any one gentleman tends, on the whole, to decrease. T...

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