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It is the purpose of this inquiry to discuss the place and value of the leisure class as an economic factor in modern life, but it has been found impracticable to confine the discussion strictly within the limits so marked out. Some attention is perforce given to the origin and the line of derivation of the institution, as well as to features of social life that are not commonly classed as economic.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| Chapter | I. | Introduction. |
| Chapter | II. | Pecuniary Emulation. |
| Chapter | III. | Conspicuous Leisure. |
| Chapter | IV. | Conspicuous Consumption. |
| Chapter | V. | The Pecuniary Standard of Living. |
| Chapter | VI. | Pecuniary Canons of Taste. |
| Chapter | VII. | Dress as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture. |
| Chapter | VIII. | Industrial Exemption and Conservation. |
| Chapter | IX. | The Conservation of Archaic Traits. |
| Chapter | X. | Modern Survivals of Prowess. |
| Chapter | XI. | The Belief in Luck. |
| Chapter | XII. | Devout Observances. |
| Chapter | XIII. | Survivals of the Non-Invidious Interest. |
| Chapter | XIV. | The Higher Learning as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture. |
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