Mary is currently a College Assistant Professor and Fellow in Economics at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge. Her research interests center on studies of neoliberalism, with particular interest in the contemporaneous evolutions of the US economy and distinct social institutions and cultural movements within the US.

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Thorstein Veblen, a name barely recognised outside academic circles, was a revolutionary economist who challenged the core tenets of his discipline and called out displays of wealth. Mary V. Wrenn,