The Theory of the Leisure Class

In Our Time: Philosophy by BBC

Dec 14, 202355:32Society & Culture

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most influential work of Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929). In 1899, during America’s Gilded Age, Veblen wrote The Theory of the Leisure Class as a reminder that all that glisters is not go...

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