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Adam Szetela

Adam Szetela is a visiting fellow in the history department at Harvard University and an associate lecturer in the English department at Curry College. His recent work appears in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, The Nation, Jacobin, Salon, and The Progressive. icon

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How to Evolve Past Capitalism

By Adam Szetela

Economic systems are like ecosystems. In America, capitalism may be the dominant species. But other species exist there, too.

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