EDITORI: Cætælin Muraru Radu Minculescu Silviu Dragomir COPERTA: Alexe Popescu REDACTOR: Florentina Hojbotæ The original title of this book is The Theory of the Leisure Class. An Economic Study of Institutions by Thorstein Veblen © 1994 by Dover Publication, Inc. © Publica, 2009, pentru ediflia în limba românæ ISBN 978-973-1931-16-6 I. Nistor, Smaranda (trad.) 33