Read-alikes and related books

Books like Conspicuous Consumption

Across Capitalism, Consumer Behavior, Theory, and Cultural & Social — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Conspicuous Consumption by Thorstein Veblen.

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Top related books to Conspicuous Consumption

Each title here shares meaningful common ground with Conspicuous Consumption — in theme, mood, or literary style.

The Experience Society Consumer Capitalism Rebooted

Steven Miles

Themes: Capitalism • Consumer Behavior • Cultural & Social

Is the American Dream Killing You? How “the Market” Rules Our Lives

Paul Stiles

Themes: Capitalism • Consumer Behavior • Cultural & Social

Knowledge, Class, and Economics Marxism Without Guarantees

Theodore A. Burczak

Themes: Capitalism • Theory • Cultural & Social

The Theory of the Leisure Class

Thorstein Veblen

Themes: Consumer Behavior • Theory • Cultural & Social

Go Woke, Go Broke The Inside Story of the Radicalization of Corporate America

Charles Gasparino

Themes: Capitalism • Theory • Cultural & Social

From Orientalism to Postcolonialism Asia, Europe and the Lineages of Difference

Sucheta Mazumdar

Themes: Capitalism • Cultural & Social • Political Ideologies

Playing for Change Music Festivals as Community Learning and Development

Michael B. MacDonald

Themes: Capitalism • Theory • Cultural & Social

Capitalism and Citizenship The Impossible Partnership

Kathryn Dean

Themes: Capitalism • Cultural & Social • Political Ideologies

The Historical Archaeology of Shadow and Intimate Economies

James A. Nyman

Themes: Capitalism • Cultural & Social • Political Ideologies

#10

Divergent Capitalisms The Social Structuring and Change of Business Systems

Richard Whitley

Themes: Capitalism • Cultural & Social • Political Ideologies

#11

Nationalism, Cultural Indoctrination, and Economic Prosperity in the Digital Age

Bryan Christiansen

Themes: Theory • Cultural & Social • Political Ideologies

#12

Consumption and the Making of Respectability, 1600-1800

Woodruff D. Smith

Themes: Consumer Behavior • Theory • Cultural & Social

#13

Power and Primacy A History of Western Intervention in the Asia-Pacific

A. B. Abrams

Themes: Cultural & Social • Political Ideologies • Economics

#14

The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Rey Chow

Themes: Capitalism • Cultural & Social • Political Ideologies

#15

His and Hers Gender, Consumption, and Technology

Roger Horowitz

Themes: Consumer Behavior • Cultural & Social • Economics

#16

The Thomas Sowell Reader

Thomas Sowell

Themes: Capitalism • Theory • Political Ideologies

#17

Democracy at Work A Cure for Capitalism

Richard D. Wolff

Themes: Capitalism • Theory • Political Ideologies

#18

The Future of Capitalism The Munk Debates

Katrina Vanden Heuvel

Themes: Capitalism • Cultural & Social • Political Ideologies

#19

Serious Money Walking Plutocratic London

Caroline Knowles

Themes: Capitalism • Cultural & Social • Political Ideologies

#20

Renaissance Nation How the Pope’s Children Rewrote the Rules for Ireland

David McWilliams

Themes: Consumer Behavior • Theory • Political Ideologies

#21

Saving Time Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

Jenny Odell

Themes: Capitalism • Cultural & Social • Political Ideologies

#22

Technofeudalism What Killed Capitalism

Yanis Varoufakis

Themes: Capitalism • Theory • Political Ideologies

#23

The Mystery of Capital Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else

Hernando De Soto

Themes: Capitalism • Theory • Political Ideologies

#24

Economic Democracy The Working-class Alternative to Capitalism

Allan Engler

Themes: Capitalism • Theory • Political Ideologies

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Capitalism, Consumer Behavior, Theory — the same threads that run through Conspicuous Consumption by Thorstein Veblen. Among the authors featured: Steven Miles, Paul Stiles, Theodore A. Burczak, Thorstein Veblen, and others.