Search Results for eugenics

...Thomas C. Leonard Duke University Press 2005 Adams, M., ed. 1990 . The Wellborn Science: Eugenics in Germany, France, Brazil, and Russia . New York: Oxford University Press. Bannister, R. 1973 . William Graham Sumner's Social Darwinism: A Reconsideration. HOPE 4 : 89 -109...

... representation of inventors. We argue that Gilfillan’s elitism can be explained by his lifelong support of eugenics, which he also used in his policy prescriptions to increase the “quality” of inventors. Engaging with Gilfillan’s adoption of eugenics is indispensable to understand his approach to inventors...

... and philosophical coordinates of Carver's “new liberalism”—his own definition—and how this broad vision was intrinsically connected with an explicitly hierarchical and eugenic approach to human nature. Just as important, what follows is also an attempt to increase our general understanding of the extent in which...

...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 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...

... Journal of Ethics 6.3 : 290 -322. Bemis, Edward W. 1888 . Restriction of Immigration. Andover Review 9 (March): 251 -64. Broberg, Gunnar, and Mattias Tydén. 1996 . Eugenics in Sweden: Efficient Care. In Eugenics and the Welfare State , edited by Gunnar Broberg and Nils Roll-Hansen, 77 -149...

... by this dialogue sheds light upon the authors’ shared interests in the “scientific” ordering of society, and in particular a vision of the future that relied heavily upon proactive eugenic planning. These findings point to an under-acknowledged eugenic dimension to Keynes’s essay that emerges more openly from his...

... journal articles in economics and in nearly half in macroeconomics. Surprisingly, its rise as an essential element in the vocabulary of economists can be dated only to the early 1970s. We trace the history of shocks in macroeconomics from Ragnar Frisch and Eugen Slutsky in the 1920s and 1930s through real...

... calendar, and eugenic arguments for restricted immigration. Described in a chapter title in R. L. Allen’s biography of Fisher as “Theorist, Reformer, Loser,” Fisher became much better known as a public figure than other leading US academic economists of his time, making and then losing a public reputation...

...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...

... in the science of political economy. Acknowledging and absorbing these changes, La Beaumelle's Pensées (1752) proposed a politics based on a naturalist anthropology with eugenic overtones and on a utilitarianism and commercial liberalism that functioned within the boundaries of the reason of state doctrine...

...: Writings on Economics , edited by Eugene Rotwein. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. ____. [1739-40] 1978 . A Treatise of Human Nature . 2d ed. Edited by P. H. Nidditch. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ____. [1742] 1985a . The Epicurean. In Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary . Edited...

... Leonard Thomas C. 2003 . “ ’More Merciful and Not Less Effective’: Eugenics and American Economics in the Progressive Era .” HOPE 35 ( Winter ): 687 – 712 . Book Reviews Cold War Social Science: Knowledge Production, Liberal Democracy, and Human Nature. Edited by Mark Solovey...

... attention on the coercive aspects of Progressivism: on the placing of the social interest above the individual interest (a “social ontology on the notion of an administrative state, and on the eugenic aspects of the Progressive program. Eugenic ideas were, as Tim Leonard (2003) has made clear...

... of this is quite cor- rect. What soon becomes apparent, however, is that McCann wants to focus special attention on the coercive aspects of Progressivism: on the placing of the social interest above the individual interest (a “social ontology on the notion of an administrative state, and on the eugenic...

... attention on the coercive aspects of Progressivism: on the placing of the social interest above the individual interest (a “social ontology on the notion of an administrative state, and on the eugenic aspects of the Progressive program. Eugenic ideas were, as Tim Leonard (2003) has made clear...

... of this is quite cor- rect. What soon becomes apparent, however, is that McCann wants to focus special attention on the coercive aspects of Progressivism: on the placing of the social interest above the individual interest (a “social ontology on the notion of an administrative state, and on the eugenic...

... attention on the coercive aspects of Progressivism: on the placing of the social interest above the individual interest (a “social ontology on the notion of an administrative state, and on the eugenic aspects of the Progressive program. Eugenic ideas were, as Tim Leonard (2003) has made clear...

... of this is quite cor- rect. What soon becomes apparent, however, is that McCann wants to focus special attention on the coercive aspects of Progressivism: on the placing of the social interest above the individual interest (a “social ontology on the notion of an administrative state, and on the eugenic...

... : Mondadori . Cantimori Delio . 1961 . Introduction to Storia degli ebrei italiani sotto il fascismo, by Renzo De Felice. Turin : Einaudi . Cassata Francesco . 2010 . Building the New Man: Eugenics, Racial Sciences, and Genetics in Twentieth-Century Italy. Budapest : Central Europe...