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The Theory of the Leisure Class
An Economic Study of Institutions

By

Thorstein Veblen


New York

The Macmillan Company
London:
Macmillan & Co.,LTD

1905


Copyright, 1899,
BY
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

Set up and electrotyped February, 1899. Reprinted May, 1902; October, 1905.