Guy Alchon
Biographic Data
| ID | 1185262 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Guy Alchon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Guy |
| FAMILY NAME | Alchon |
| SIGNATURE | ALCHON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delaware |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era by Thomas C. Leonard
Illiberal Reformers tells two stories: one is of the progressive social scientists who demoted laissez-faire and raised up the modern administrative state; another is of the racialist and eugenic ambitions of these same social scientists, chiefly the new economists who rose to influence late in the nineteenth century. Included among these were Richard T. Ely, John R. Commons, Simon Patten, Irving Fisher, and Thorstein Veblen. Thomas C. Leonard in…
Gender and American Social Science: The Formative Years
This collection of essays provides the first systematic and multidisciplinary analysis of the role of gender in the formation and dissemination of the American social sciences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Other books have traced the history of academic social science without paying attention to gender, or have described women's social activism while ignoring its relation to the production of new social knowledge. In contr…
Policy History and the Sublime Immodesty of the Middle-Aged Professor
The idea of policy history arises from an awareness of“something missing.” In the view of some social scientists, politics and public policy too often have been treated ahistorically by their disciplines, with evidence subordinated to theory. For some historians, the apparent waning of disciplinary interest in political history has been similarly distorting. Because of these things, social scientists, political historians, and more than a few soc…
States, Social Knowledge, and the Origins of Modern Social Policies
Mary Van Kleeck and Social-Economic Planning
“We are, most of us,” Mary Van Kleeck said in November 1957, “getting too old to talk.” Near the end of more than two hours of interrogation by officials of the State Department's Passport Office, Van Kleeck tried to impress upon her questioners the commitment to social research and to social justice that underlay her career. The Passport Office, however, was more concerned about her Communist front and party affiliations, and she was in their of…
The Politics of Knowledge: The Carnegie Corporation, Philanthropy, and Public Policy
Journal Article The Politics of Knowledge: The Carnegie Corporation, Philanthropy, and Public Policy. By Ellen CondlifFe Lagemann. (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1989. xvi + 347 pp. $30.00.) Get access Guy Alchon Guy Alchon University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1392–1393, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078355 Published: …
Frederick Taylor and the Public Administration Community: A Reevaluation
Journal Article Frederick Taylor and the Public Administration Community: A Reevaluation. By Hindy Lauer Schachter. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989. x + 175 pp. Cloth, $39.50; paper, $12.95.) Get access Guy Alchon Guy Alchon University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Pages 1086–1087, https://doi.org/10.2307/207912…
Memoirs of an Unregulated Economist . George J. Stigler
Prosperity and Upheaval: The World Economy, 1945-1980
Journal Article Prosperity and Upheaval: The World Economy, 1945–1980. By Herman Van der Wee. Trans, by Robin Hogg and Max R. Hall. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. 621 pp. $32.50.) Get access Guy Alchon Guy Alchon University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 2, September 1987, Pages 557–558, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900126 Published: …
The Invisible Hand of Planning: Capitalism, Social Science, and the State in the 1920s
Journal Article The Invisible Hand of Planning: Capitalism, Social Science, and the State in the 1920s. By Guy Alchon. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985. x + 252 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.) Get access Kim McQuaid Kim McQuaid Lake Erie College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 4, March 1986, Pages 988–989, https://doi.org/10.2307/190896…
Mary Van Kleeck and Social-Economic Planning
“We are, most of us,” Mary Van Kleeck said in November 1957, “getting too old to talk.” Near the end of more than two hours of interrogation by officials of the State Department's Passport Office, Van Kleeck tried to impress upon her questioners the commitment to social research and to social justice that underlay her career. The Passport Office, however, was more concerned about her Communist front and party affiliations, and she was in their of…
Frederick Taylor and the Public Administration Community: A Reevaluation
Journal Article Frederick Taylor and the Public Administration Community: A Reevaluation. By Hindy Lauer Schachter. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989. x + 175 pp. Cloth, $39.50; paper, $12.95.) Get access Guy Alchon Guy Alchon University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Pages 1086–1087, https://doi.org/10.2307/207912…
Gender and American Social Science: The Formative Years
This collection of essays provides the first systematic and multidisciplinary analysis of the role of gender in the formation and dissemination of the American social sciences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Other books have traced the history of academic social science without paying attention to gender, or have described women's social activism while ignoring its relation to the production of new social knowledge. In contr…
Prosperity and Upheaval: The World Economy, 1945-1980
Journal Article Prosperity and Upheaval: The World Economy, 1945–1980. By Herman Van der Wee. Trans, by Robin Hogg and Max R. Hall. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. 621 pp. $32.50.) Get access Guy Alchon Guy Alchon University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 2, September 1987, Pages 557–558, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900126 Published: …
The Invisible Hand of Planning: Capitalism, Social Science, and the State in the 1920s
Journal Article The Invisible Hand of Planning: Capitalism, Social Science, and the State in the 1920s. By Guy Alchon. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985. x + 252 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.) Get access Kim McQuaid Kim McQuaid Lake Erie College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 4, March 1986, Pages 988–989, https://doi.org/10.2307/190896…
The Invisible Hand of Planning: Capitalism, Social Science, and the State in the 1920s
Journal Article The Invisible Hand of Planning: Capitalism, Social Science, and the State in the 1920s. By Guy Alchon. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985. x + 252 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.) Get access Kim McQuaid Kim McQuaid Lake Erie College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 4, March 1986, Pages 988–989, https://doi.org/10.2307/190896…
Prosperity and Upheaval: The World Economy, 1945-1980
Journal Article Prosperity and Upheaval: The World Economy, 1945–1980. By Herman Van der Wee. Trans, by Robin Hogg and Max R. Hall. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. 621 pp. $32.50.) Get access Guy Alchon Guy Alchon University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 2, September 1987, Pages 557–558, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900126 Published: …
Frederick Taylor and the Public Administration Community: A Reevaluation
Journal Article Frederick Taylor and the Public Administration Community: A Reevaluation. By Hindy Lauer Schachter. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989. x + 175 pp. Cloth, $39.50; paper, $12.95.) Get access Guy Alchon Guy Alchon University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Pages 1086–1087, https://doi.org/10.2307/207912…
Memoirs of an Unregulated Economist . George J. Stigler
Mary Van Kleeck and Social-Economic Planning
“We are, most of us,” Mary Van Kleeck said in November 1957, “getting too old to talk.” Near the end of more than two hours of interrogation by officials of the State Department's Passport Office, Van Kleeck tried to impress upon her questioners the commitment to social research and to social justice that underlay her career. The Passport Office, however, was more concerned about her Communist front and party affiliations, and she was in their of…
The Politics of Knowledge: The Carnegie Corporation, Philanthropy, and Public Policy
Journal Article The Politics of Knowledge: The Carnegie Corporation, Philanthropy, and Public Policy. By Ellen CondlifFe Lagemann. (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1989. xvi + 347 pp. $30.00.) Get access Guy Alchon Guy Alchon University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1392–1393, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078355 Published: …
Policy History and the Sublime Immodesty of the Middle-Aged Professor
The idea of policy history arises from an awareness of“something missing.” In the view of some social scientists, politics and public policy too often have been treated ahistorically by their disciplines, with evidence subordinated to theory. For some historians, the apparent waning of disciplinary interest in political history has been similarly distorting. Because of these things, social scientists, political historians, and more than a few soc…
States, Social Knowledge, and the Origins of Modern Social Policies
Gender and American Social Science: The Formative Years
This collection of essays provides the first systematic and multidisciplinary analysis of the role of gender in the formation and dissemination of the American social sciences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Other books have traced the history of academic social science without paying attention to gender, or have described women's social activism while ignoring its relation to the production of new social knowledge. In contr…
Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era by Thomas C. Leonard
Illiberal Reformers tells two stories: one is of the progressive social scientists who demoted laissez-faire and raised up the modern administrative state; another is of the racialist and eugenic ambitions of these same social scientists, chiefly the new economists who rose to influence late in the nineteenth century. Included among these were Richard T. Ely, John R. Commons, Simon Patten, Irving Fisher, and Thorstein Veblen. Thomas C. Leonard in…
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