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Simon Torracinta

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.

Articles

Far from spelling the end of anti-market politics, basic income proposals are one place where it can and has flourished.

Simon Torracinta
How microeconomic reasoning took over the very institutions of American governance.
Simon Torracinta

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
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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