Throughout, esp. Chapters 3-4
Critics dispute whether Veblen is doing science, satire, or moralism; his deadpan irony is often mistaken for straight description.
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Veblen's tone, his sweeping evolutionary anthropology, and his blunt treatment of women, religion, and elite culture have made the book perennially provocative.
Chapter 14
His attack on universities offended academic readers; later critics question the empirical basis of his stages of culture.
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