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.
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