A review by mey
Conspicuous Consumption by Thorstein Veblen

informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

This book is more about the "conspicuous" part than the "consumption" bits, which I thought would be the other way around before reading it. Veblen's theory on the leisure class and leisure (and the waste of money and time that it necessarily contains) is very interesting, but his language is so verbose and bloated that I had a difficult time reading through the 100 pages.