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Simon Torracinta

Simon Torracinta is a PhD candidate in the History of Science and Medicine at Yale University. His writing has appeared in n+1 and The New Inquiry.

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Class & Inequality

The Gadfly of American Plutocracy

Far from a marginal outsider, a new biography contends, Thorstein Veblen was the most important economic thinker of the Gilded Age.

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