What to Read After The Theory of the Leisure Class
Readers who loved The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Theory of the Leisure Class is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Theory of the Leisure Class
The Great Transformation
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
The Affluent Society
An Essay on the Principle of Population
The Sociological Imagination
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The Power Elite
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
From Max Weber
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
The Civilizing Process
Class
Money
The Philosophy of Money
Labor and Monopoly Capital
The New Industrial State
La Distinction
Basic Political Writings
The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism
One-Dimensional Man
Empire
Selections from the prison notebooks of Antonio Gramsci.
A Brief History of Neoliberalism
Capitalism and Modern Social Theory