Теория праздного класса

Torsteĭn Veblen (1857-1929) - amerikanskiĭ ėkonomist, sot͡siolog i publit͡sist, doktor filosofii, prepodaval v Kornellskom, Chikagskom, Stėnfordskom universitetakh. "Teorii͡a prazdnogo klassa" - znakovai͡a rabota T. Veblena. Osnovnoĭ material dli͡a issledovanii͡a on cherpal iz deĭstvitelʹnosti togo vremeni - ėpokhi trushchob i dvort͡sov v Chikago. V ėtoĭ knige avtor vpervye vvodit samo poni͡atie "prazdnogo klassa", kotoryĭ otlichaetsi͡a demonstrat͡sieĭ svoikh vozmozhnosteĭ, vysokogo polozhenii͡a v ierarkhii. Veblen nazval ėto demonstrativnoĭ prazdnostʹi͡u i demonstrativnym potrebleniem, kogda chelovek stremitsi͡a ne stolʹko k ėkonomicheskoĭ, skolʹko k sot͡sialʹnoĭ vygode, priobretai͡a ne praktichnye, a statusnye veshchi.

Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was an American economist, sociologist and publicist, Doctor of Philosophy, taught at Cornell, Chicago, and Stanford Universities. "The Theory of the Leisure Class" is a landmark work by T. Veblen. He drew the main material for his research from the reality of that time - the era of slums and palaces in Chicago. In this book, the author introduces for the first time the very concept of the "leisure class", which is distinguished by demonstrating its capabilities, high position in the hierarchy. Veblen called it demonstrative idleness and demonstrative consumption, when a person strives not so much for economic as for social benefit, acquiring not practical, but status things.