The Theory Of The Leisure Class (Paperback)

The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions presents the evolutionary development of human institutions that shape society, such as how the citizens earn their livelihoods, wherein technology and the industrial arts are the creative forces of economic production. That such production of goods and services was not merely the means of meeting the material needs of society, but of earning profits for the owners of the means of production. That the industrial production system required the workers to be diligent, efficient, and co-operative, whilst the owners concerned themselves with making money and with the public display of their accumulated wealth; and that such behaviours survived from the predatory, barbarian past of the tribal stage of modern society.