Simon Torracinta

Simon Torracinta is senior editor at Dissent and a former contributing editor at Boston Review. His writing has also appeared in n+1 and The New Inquiry.

The Limits of Professional-Class Liberalism

How professionals remade the Democratic Party, narrowing its political vision.

  • Simon Torracinta
  • Brent Cebul
  • Lily Geismer
  • Dylan Gottlieb
  • Nicole Hemmer
  • Danielle Wiggins

Can Social Democracy Win Again?

The tangled legacy of the Swedish experiment.

  • Simon Torracinta

Escape from the Market

Basic income proposals threaten the market order—which is why they keep being beaten back, even though some capitalists support them.

  • Simon Torracinta

Bad Economics

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

  • Simon Torracinta

We Don’t Know, But Let’s Try It

For economist Albert O. Hirschman, social planning meant creative experimentation rather than theoretical certainty.

  • Simon Torracinta

The Gadfly of American Plutocracy

Thorstein Veblen was the most important economic thinker of the Gilded Age.

  • Simon Torracinta
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