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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, Philosophy & Religion

We Don't Know, But Let's Try It

For economist Albert O. Hirschman, social planning meant creative experimentation rather than theoretical certainty. We could use more of his improvisatory optimism today.

Simon Torracinta

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.

Simon Torracinta

       

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