WEARY OF THE LEISURE CLASS WHAT WOULD THORSTEIN VEBLEN, WHO TOOK NO PRISONERS IN HIS 'THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS, ' MAKE OF TODAY'S CONSUMER CULTURE? From: The Boston Globe | Date: December 12, 2004| Author: Matthew Price | Copyright 2004 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

NEW YORK - Last Friday, a group of liberal academics and writers gathered amidst Manhattan's holiday shopping frenzy to ponder an urgent question: Would Thorstein Veblen have shopped at Wal-Mart?

Actually, the group assembled at the New School for Social Research - which included Harper's editor Lewis Lapham, political journalist Michael Lind, and sundry Veblen scholars - convened to debate a more sober matter: whether the insights of the maverick economist, best known for giving the...

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