Originally published as The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study in the Evolution of Institutions (1899), the book arose from three articles that Veblen published in the "American Journal of Sociology": (i) “The Beginning of Ownership” (ii) “The Barbarian Status of Women”, and (iii) “The Instinct of Workmanship and the Irksomeness of Labour” (1898–99), which presented the major themes of economics and sociology that he later developed in works such as: "The Theory of Business Enterprise" (1904), about how incompatible are the pursuit of profit and the making of useful goods; and "The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts" (1914), about the fundamental conflict between the human predisposition to useful production and the societal institutions that waste the useful products of human effort.