Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

Mary Wrenn

Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of the West of England

1 episode

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  1. The Theory of the Leisure Class

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thorstein Veblen's critique of wasteful capitalism, as he saw it, in America's Gilded Age with conspicuous leisure and conspicuous consumption.

    16 November 2023

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    Also featuring: Matthew Watson, Bill Waller