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Senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and director of policy research at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at The New School. He is editor of the longstanding economics magazine, Challenge. His new book, Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present, has just been published. He is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books.

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