...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...

... 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...

.... Fairchild, Henry Pratt. 1911 . The Paradox of Immigration. American Journal of Sociology 17.2 : 254 -67. Farnam, Henry W. 1888 . The State and the Poor. Political Science Quarterly 3.2 : 282 -310. Fetter, Frank A. 1899 . Social Progress and Race Degeneration. Forum 28 (October): 228 -38...

...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...

...Nikola Regent Although published for the first time only in 1849, La Decima scalata is the first treatise ever written on progressive taxation. Composed in the 1510s or 1520s, it is set in late fifteenth-century Florence, after the expulsion of Piero de’ Medici: in two discorsi , first in favore...

...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...

...,but as an extension of general-equilibrium analysis into the explo- ration of areas that LW did not consider, and as an independent creation it will influence the future course of economic theory. Indiana University of Pennsylvania DONALDA. WALKER The Theory of Economic Progress. Third...

...Marco Dardi marco.dardi@unifi.it Alfred Marshall's Last Challenge: His Book on Economic Progress . Edited by Katia Caldari and Tamotsu Nishizawa . Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing , 2020 . xiv; 424 pp. £68.99 . Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press...

... University Press. Tucker , Josiah . 1974 . Four Tracts on Political and Commercial Subjects , 3d ed. Clifton: Kelley. Young , Allyn . 1928 . Increasing Returns and Economic Progress Economic Journal 38 . 152 : 527 -42. The Endogenous Nature of Technological Progress and Transfer...

... Concept of Progress. In Progress and its Discontents , edited by Gabriel A. Almond, Mavin Chodorow, and Roy Harvey Pearce. Berkeley: University of California Press. Ayala , Francisco J. 1988 . Can “Progress” Be Defined as a Biological Concept? In Evolutionary Progress , edited by Matthew H...

...Samuel Hollander The Political Economy of Progress: John Stuart Mill and Modern Radicalism . By Persky Joseph . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2016 . xx, 272 pp. $78.00 . Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 References Engels Friedrich . 1894...

.... $60.00. John Stuart Mill: The Politics of Progress. By Oskar Kurer. New York: Garland, 1991. 224 pp. $52.00. In a letter to his wife of 24 February 1855, John Mill expressed the hope that by publishing his own collection of essays he could decide which portion of his 548 History...

...James R. Simpson; Lonnie L. Jones Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 [HOPE Vol. 7 (1975) No. 21 NOTE: The progress of the econometric movement In a recent article in this journal, “Quantitative Analysis of the Progress...

... The Rise and Fall of Economic Growth. By H. W. Arndt. Melbourne, Australia: Longman Cheshire, 1978. Pp. 161. No price listed. History of the Idea of Progress. By Robert Nisbet. New York: Basic Books, 1980. Pp. 370. $16.95. A glance at the titles of these two books would lead...

...Ken McCormick Richard W. Lindholm and Arthur D. Lynn, Jr. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1982. Pp. 238. $20.00. Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book Reviews 353 Land value taxation: the Progress and Poverty...

...: University of Chicago Press. A Perilous Progress: Economists and Public Purpose in Twentieth-Century America. By Michael A. Bernstein. Princeton: Princeton University Press,2001. 358 pp. $39.50. Bernstein’s subject is the professionalization of American economics in the early twentieth century...

....” Technology Review 48 ( 7 ). ———. 1949 . Invention and Innovation in the Radio Industry . New York : Macmillan . ———. 1950a . “Patents and Technological Progress: A Study of Television.” Journal of Political Economy 58 ( 2 ): 142 – 57 . ———. 1950b . “The Process of Technological...

... be, and facilitate a constructive adaptation to it. Several kinds of evidence could be and have been used as indi- 153 WANG 0 PROGRESS OF THE ECONOMETRIC MOVEMENT cators of the timing and extent of the paradigm shift to econometrics...

...P. D. Groenewegen Ronald L. Meek. Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics. Cambridge at the University Press, 1973. Pp. 186. $12.50. Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 BOOK REVIEWS Turgot on Progress, Sociology and Economics. Translated, edited...