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...Malcolm Rutherford Order and Control in American Socio-economic Thought: Social Scientists and Progressive-Era Reform . By McCann Charles R. Jr. . London : Routledge , 2012 . xx; 291 pp. Hardback $130.00 . Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 References...

...Bradley W. Bateman Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era . By Leonard Thomas C. Princeton : Princeton University Press 2016 . 264 pp. $35.00 . Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 References Furner Mary . 2005...

...Thomas C. Leonard During the long Progressive Era (1885–1918) progressive reformers transformed American government, American higher education, and American economics, all in the name of regulating a transformed economy. Economic progress, they argued successfully, required the creation...

...Thomas C. Leonard This essay explores the progressive beliefs other than human hierarchy that inclined Progressive Era economic reform toward eugenics. It argues the following: that the progressives believed in a powerful, centralized state, conceiving of government as the best means for promoting...

... . American Progressive-Era Political Economy: The Case of Legal Minimum Wages . Unpublished manuscript. Ludmerer, Kenneth M. 1972 . Genetics and American Society . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. Mayo-Smith, Richmond. 1888a . Control of Immigration I. Political Science Quarterly 3.1 : 46 -77...

...Thomas C. Leonard Evangelical Protestantism and evolutionary science comfortably coexisted in Progressive Era American political economy. Leading progressive economists, many of them evangelicals attached to the Social Gospel movement, routinely assimilated ideas borrowed from evolutionary science...

...Luca Fiorito; Massimiliano Vatiero The aim of this article is to assess whether Wesley Clair Mitchell, as a reformer, ever expressed concern over the biological quality of individuals and whether he did somehow share the Progressive Era faith in eugenics as an instrument for improving American...

... significant consequences, because worries over the high cost of living more powerfully shaped Progressive era public policy than has been appreciated. Tariff reduction, parcel post, antitrust prosecution, cold storage legislation, farm credit, standardization of weights and measures, and other reforms were...

... of economists, that is, the encounters between economists and their publics. In the volume we constrain ourselves to the long twentieth century in the United States and the United Kingdom, fenced at one end by the Progressive Era and Fabianism and the ongoing economic crisis at the other. Economists...

... eugenic considerations permeated the realm of political economy during the first decades of the last century and how, in some specific cases as that of Carver, this influence persisted after the end of the Progressive era. Correspondence may be addressed to Luca Fiorito, e-mail: luca.fiorito.1967...

...Richard B. Kielbowicz Many Progressive Era reformers, lawmakers, and economists believed that free market competition failed to maximize the public benefits of telecommunication networks. When proposals to place the nation's telecommunication system under the post office gained currency, AT&T...

... (a period that he later called the Glorious Thirty) as well as the following rise of services, leading to a new era of stagnation at the turn of the millennium. His model emphasizes the role of technical progress while growth models focus on capital and labor. Fourastié’s work was initially reviewed...

...-solvers who could straighten out the nation’s crisis if encouraged to assume greater influence in economic governance. A number of Depression-era schools experimented with curricula for teaching engineers more economics, though approaches varied. Such developments thus situate this key episode...

... and Progressive-Era American Economics. HOPE 35 : 709 -34. ____. 2003b . Review of Darwinism and Evolutionary Economics, edited by J. Laurent and J. Nightingale. HOPE 34 : 350 -53. ____. 2003c . “A Certain Rude Honesty”: John Bates Clark as a Pioneering Neoclassical Economist. HOPE 35 : 521...

... Antecedents. In Toward a History of Applied Economics , edited by Roger Backhouse and Jeff Biddle. HOPE 32 (supplement): 117 -44. ____. 2003 . “More Merciful and Not Less Effective”: Eugenics and American Economics in the Progressive Era. HOPE 35.4 . Macrosty, Henry W. 1901 . Trusts and the State...

... . Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Diner, Steven J. 1980 . A City and Its Universities: Public Policy in Chicago, 1892-1919 . Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press. ____. 1998 . A Very Different Age: Americans in the Progressive Era . New York: Hill and Wang. Eastman, Crystal. 1910...

... knowledge claims based on the application of specialized methods (Geiger 1986, 27). Distinguishing professionalization from specialized knowledge proves useful when examining educational reform in the Progressive Era. The central educational distinction for Progressives was between intelli- gence...

... and the practice of the art, he could not resist the rhetorical temptation to misrepresent the people he wanted to criticize. In his new book, Thomas Leonard has worked hard to escape this legacy. He begins his story about the American economists who lived during the Progressive Era by noting some...

... Era. His book, Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press. Contributors 269 Alain Marciano is associate professor at the University of Montpellier. His...

... War II era. He argues that Samuelson’s text promoted and reflected a value system of rationally directed progress that dominated American society from the end of World War II into the 1960s. Part 3,“The Gods of Chicago,” argues that in the 1960s the University of Chicago replaced Samuelson...