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Michael McCarthy

Michael McCarthy is an assistant professor of sociology at Marquette University. He is currently writing a book on the development of America's private pension system titled Privatizing the Golden Years.

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Class & Inequality

The Power of Bad Ideas

A new book on economist Karl Polanyi.

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