Abstract
This working paper takes as its subject the well-known oddities of the original Ian Fleming James Bond novels--the questionable-seeming claims for Bond's exceptional competence as a secret agent, the place of various luxuries with which Fleming closely associates Bond (down to his favored brand of strawberry jam) and the complex interactions between Bond and villain, with their sometime combination of gentility and gamesmanship with murderous intent. Examining these features of the books through the lens afforded by the sociologist Thorstein Veblen's theory of the leisure class, it shows that these details of the stories, implausible as they are, are remarkably consistent with Veblen's analysis of the prowess-living, conspicuously consuming barbarian, which world-view seems to deeply inform the work.
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