Indeed, the title group believes in luck and tries to emulate in a "pecuniary fashion.
It ends with a discussion of learnedness and education as ritualistic and an example of "archaism and waste." Women are discussed in the section on dress, where the author notes that vestigial "predatory barbarism" dictates that functional clothes are not fashionable. Indeed, the title group believes in luck and tries to emulate in a "pecuniary fashion." The author cites the division of labor for precipitating the rising distinction between industrial and non-industrial employments a fact that allows certain members of society to conspicuously consume. These ideas, FTP, are put forth in what 1899 work, subtitled an Economic Study of Institutions, written by Thorstein Veblen.
It ends with a discussion of learnedness and education as ritualistic and an example of "archaism and waste.
Theory of the Leisure Class