The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature)

293 pp. Red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. The Theory of the Leisure Class is an economic treatise and detailed social critique of conspicuous consumption, as a function of social-class consumerism. It proposes that the social strata and the division of labor of the feudal period continued into the modern era.