Simon Torracinta is Lecturer in History of Science at Harvard and a contributing editor at Boston Review. His writing has also appeared in n+1 and The New Inquiry.
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Simon Torracinta is Lecturer in History of Science at Harvard and a contributing editor at Boston Review. His writing has also appeared in n+1 and The New Inquiry.
Far from spelling the end of anti-market politics, basic income proposals are one place where it can and has flourished.
For economist Albert O. Hirschman, social planning meant creative experimentation rather than theoretical certainty. We could use more of his improvisatory optimism today.
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