CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION: Thorstein Veblen & Our Economy of Waste

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Workmanship Group (Venice, CA 90291-5205)
Arthur L. Hoyle (Project Director: January 1981 to October 1990)

To support development and writing of a script for a 60-minute television program about the life and thought of Thorstein Veblen, one of America's creative economists and social philosophers. The program will apply Veblen's theories, developed in the early 20th century, to American social conditions in the 1980s