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Special Focus: Measuring Leisure in OECD Countries
www.oecd.orgbetween leisure and other measures of well-being, and leisure and policy choices about paid holidays. The economic theory of leisure time Since Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class at the end of the 19th century, economists and other social scientists have taken a great deal of interest in leisure. Most work on labour
Pierre Bourdieu’s Cultural Capital Theory: Key Concepts
iamemilysun.comVeblen’s 1899 treatise Theory of the Leisure Class (Trigg 2001). Veblen, like Bourdieu, argues that people distinguish themselves from others though their lifestyle choices. Veblen posits that each class in society feels pressure to copy
The Theory of the Leisure Class - Columbia University
moglen.law.columbia.eduthe common economic characteristic of being non-industrial. These non-industrial upper-class occupations may be roughly comprised under government, warfare, reli- ... and the absence, in great measure, of the animus or spiritual attitude on which the institution of a leisure class rests. These communities of primitive savages in which