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Thorstein Veblen
Conspicuous Consumption

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With its wry portrayal of a shallow, materialistic ”leisure class” obsessed by clothes, cars, consumer goods and climbing the social ladder, this withering satire on modern capitalism is as pertinent today as when it was written over a century ago.

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Format EPUB ● Pages 112 ● ISBN 9780141964317 ● Publisher Penguin Books Ltd ● Published 2005 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2271548 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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