Thomas C Leonard
Biographic Data
| ID | 681264 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas C Leonard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas C |
| FAMILY NAME | Leonard |
| SIGNATURE | LEONARD T C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 130 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era
In Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform agenda underwrote the Progressive Era dismantling of laissez-faire and the creation of the regulatory welfare state, which, they believed, would humanize and rationalize industrial capitalism. But not for all. Academic social scientists such as Richard T. Ely, John R. Commons, and Edward A. Ross, together with their reform allies in social work, cha…
Progressive Era Origins of the Regulatory State and the Economist as Expert
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 of a powerful regulatory state, guided by expert economic advisers, whose scientific training and credentials were supplied by the nascent research universities. Progressive econom…
Religion and Evolution in Progressive Era Political Economy: Adversaries or Allies
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-heredity, selection, fitness, and race-into their religiously motivated project of economic reform. The Social Gospel economists' merger of evolutionary ideas and Protes…
Origins of the myth of social Darwinism: The ambiguous legacy of Richard Hofstadter's Social Darwinism in American Thought
American Economic Reform in the Progressive Era: Its Foundational Beliefs and Their Relation to Eugenics
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 the social good and rejecting the individualism of (classical) liberalism; that the progressives venerated social efficiency; that the progressives believed in the epist…
Mistaking Eugenics for Social Darwinism: Why Eugenics Is Missing from the History of American Economics
Research Article| December 01 2005 Mistaking Eugenics for Social Darwinism: Why Eugenics Is Missing from the History of American Economics Thomas C. Leonard Thomas C. Leonard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2005) 37 (Suppl_1): 200–233. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-37-Suppl_1-200 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Shar…
Retrospectives: Eugenics and Economics in the Progressive Era
During the Progressive Era, eugenic approaches to social and economic reform were popular, respectable and widespread. This essay documents the influence of eugenic ideas upon American economic reform, especially in the areas of immigration and labor reform, and tries to illuminate something of its causes and consequences
Protecting Family and Race: The Progressive Case for Regulating Women's Work
American economics came of age during the Progressive Era, a time when biological approaches to economic reform were at their high-water mark. Reform-minded economists argued that the labor force should be rid of unfit workers-whom they labeled "unemployables,""parasites," and the "industrial residuum"-so as to uplift superior, deserving workers. Women were also frequently classified as unemployable. Leading progressives, including women at the f…
Darwinism and Evolutionary Economics
Book Review| June 01 2003 Darwinism and Evolutionary Economics Edited by John Laurent and John Nightingale. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2001. xii; 254 pp. $90.00. Thomas C. Leonard Thomas C. Leonard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (2): 350–353. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-35-2-350 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Cita…
A Certain Rude Honesty: John Bates Clark as a Pioneering Neoclassical Economist
Research Article| September 01 2003 “A Certain Rude Honesty”: John Bates Clark as a Pioneering Neoclassical Economist Thomas C. Leonard Thomas C. Leonard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (3): 521–558. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-35-3-521 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas C. Leonard; “A Certain Rude Honesty”:…
More Merciful and Not Less Effective: Eugenics and American Economics in the Progressive Era
Research Article| November 01 2003 "More Merciful and Not Less Effective": Eugenics and American Economics in the Progressive Era Thomas C. Leonard Thomas C. Leonard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (4): 687-712. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-35-4-687 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Li…
Economics at the millennium
The Very Idea of Applying Economics: The Modern Minimum-Wage Controversy and Its Antecedents
Research Article| December 01 2000 The Very Idea of Applying Economics: The Modern Minimum-Wage Controversy and Its Antecedents Thomas C. Leonard Thomas C. Leonard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (Suppl_1): 117–144. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-32-Suppl_1-117 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas C. Leonard; The Very Idea of Applying Ec…
Recovering "Wretched Stuff" and the Franklins' Synergy
Parricide on the QT: Notoriety and knowingness at the dawn of new media
The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life
Journal Article The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life. By Michael Schudson. (New York: Free Press, 1998. x, 390 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-684-82729-8.) Get access Thomas C. Leonard Thomas C. Leonard University of California, Berkeley, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 3, December 1999, Pages 1322–1323, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568629 Published: 0…
United States
The Beaten Path to the History of a Free Press
Home Town News: William Allen White and the Emporia Gazette
Journal Article Home Town News: William Allen White and the Emporia Gazette. By Sally Foreman Griffith. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. x + 291 pp. $24.95.) Get access Thomas C. Leonard Thomas C. Leonard University of California Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 4, March 1990, Page 1293, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936669 Published: 01 March 1990
Column Right: Conservative Journalists in the Service of Nationalism
Journal Article Column Right: Conservative Journalists in the Service of Nationalism. By David Burner and Thomas R. West. (New York: New York University Press, 1988. ix + 115 pp. $19.95.) Get access Thomas C. Leonard Thomas C. Leonard University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 2, September 1989, Pages 654–655, https://doi.org/10.2307/190…
The Power of the Press
One Good Libel Deserves Another
The Power of the Press: The Birth of American Political Reporting
Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933-1945
Journal Article Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933–1943. By Deborah E. Lipstadt. (New York: Free Press, 1986. xi + 370 pp. $19.95.) Get access Thomas C. Leonard Thomas C. Leonard University of CaliforniaBerkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 2, September 1986, Pages 513–514, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908319 Published: 01 Se…
The "Bully" Pulpit: Who Listened
More Merciful and Not Less Effective: Eugenics and American Economics in the Progressive Era
Research Article| November 01 2003 "More Merciful and Not Less Effective": Eugenics and American Economics in the Progressive Era Thomas C. Leonard Thomas C. Leonard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (4): 687-712. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-35-4-687 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Li…
Retrospectives: Eugenics and Economics in the Progressive Era
During the Progressive Era, eugenic approaches to social and economic reform were popular, respectable and widespread. This essay documents the influence of eugenic ideas upon American economic reform, especially in the areas of immigration and labor reform, and tries to illuminate something of its causes and consequences
Origins of the myth of social Darwinism: The ambiguous legacy of Richard Hofstadter's Social Darwinism in American Thought
A Certain Rude Honesty: John Bates Clark as a Pioneering Neoclassical Economist
Research Article| September 01 2003 “A Certain Rude Honesty”: John Bates Clark as a Pioneering Neoclassical Economist Thomas C. Leonard Thomas C. Leonard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (3): 521–558. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-35-3-521 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas C. Leonard; “A Certain Rude Honesty”:…
Protecting Family and Race: The Progressive Case for Regulating Women's Work
American economics came of age during the Progressive Era, a time when biological approaches to economic reform were at their high-water mark. Reform-minded economists argued that the labor force should be rid of unfit workers-whom they labeled "unemployables,""parasites," and the "industrial residuum"-so as to uplift superior, deserving workers. Women were also frequently classified as unemployable. Leading progressives, including women at the f…
Mistaking Eugenics for Social Darwinism: Why Eugenics Is Missing from the History of American Economics
Research Article| December 01 2005 Mistaking Eugenics for Social Darwinism: Why Eugenics Is Missing from the History of American Economics Thomas C. Leonard Thomas C. Leonard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2005) 37 (Suppl_1): 200–233. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-37-Suppl_1-200 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Shar…
The Very Idea of Applying Economics: The Modern Minimum-Wage Controversy and Its Antecedents
Research Article| December 01 2000 The Very Idea of Applying Economics: The Modern Minimum-Wage Controversy and Its Antecedents Thomas C. Leonard Thomas C. Leonard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (Suppl_1): 117–144. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-32-Suppl_1-117 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas C. Leonard; The Very Idea of Applying Ec…
Objectivity and the News: The Public and the Rise of Commercial Journalism
Journal Article Objectivity and the News: The Pubhc and the Rise of Commercial Journalism. By Dan Schiller. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981. xv + 222 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $20.00.) Get access Thomas C. Leonard Thomas C. Leonard University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 4, March …
American Economic Reform in the Progressive Era: Its Foundational Beliefs and Their Relation to Eugenics
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 the social good and rejecting the individualism of (classical) liberalism; that the progressives venerated social efficiency; that the progressives believed in the epist…
Progressive Era Origins of the Regulatory State and the Economist as Expert
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 of a powerful regulatory state, guided by expert economic advisers, whose scientific training and credentials were supplied by the nascent research universities. Progressive econom…
The Power of the Press: The Birth of American Political Reporting
Religion and Evolution in Progressive Era Political Economy: Adversaries or Allies
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-heredity, selection, fitness, and race-into their religiously motivated project of economic reform. The Social Gospel economists' merger of evolutionary ideas and Protes…
United States
News for a Revolution: The Expose in America, 1768-1773
With the American Revolution taking shape about him, a Boston shopkeeper built a file of newspapers. Harbottle Dorr was a member of the Sons of Liberty, but he put more energy into his collection than into that radical organization. He numbered some 3,500 pages, bound them into four folios, constructed indexes, and then, through a complex code of numbers and letters, led the reader back and forth through a decade of Dorr scribbled praise of patri…
Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers
Journal Article Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers. By Michael Schudson. (New York: Basic, 1978. xi + 228 pp. Notes and index. $10.95.) Get access Thomas C. Leonard Thomas C. Leonard University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 2, September 1979, Pages 365–366, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900892 Published: 01 Septem…
Books reviewed
A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait. By Jervis Anderson. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. 1973. 398 pp. $12.50 American Labor Radicalism: Testimonies and Interpretations. Edited by Staughton Lynd. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1973. 217 pp. $7.95
Red, White and the Army Blue: Empathy and Anger in the American West
most honored tradition in our histories of the Indian wars. The statements of Indian fighters have seemed eloquent indictments (or, more rarely now, defenses) of the winning of the West. And yet anyone who reads what Army officers said about the final Indian wars must feel that these men have never been listened to closely. As a consequence, I think, a good deal of criticism of American expansion has been blunted in two ways.1 First, it has been …
Myths and Realities of America at War
Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers
Journal Article Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers. By Michael Schudson. (New York: Basic, 1978. xi + 228 pp. Notes and index. $10.95.) Get access Thomas C. Leonard Thomas C. Leonard University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 2, September 1979, Pages 365–366, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900892 Published: 01 Septem…
Above the Battle: War-Making in America from Appomattox to Versailles
Journal Article Above the Battle: War-Making in America from Appomattox to Versailles. By Thomas C. Leonard. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. viii + 260 pp. $12.95.) Get access David F. Trask David F. Trask Department of State Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 3, December 1980, Pages 697–698, https://doi.org/10.2307/1889922 Published: 01 December 1980
News for a Revolution: The Expose in America, 1768-1773
With the American Revolution taking shape about him, a Boston shopkeeper built a file of newspapers. Harbottle Dorr was a member of the Sons of Liberty, but he put more energy into his collection than into that radical organization. He numbered some 3,500 pages, bound them into four folios, constructed indexes, and then, through a complex code of numbers and letters, led the reader back and forth through a decade of Dorr scribbled praise of patri…
The Press and the American Revolution
Journal Article The Press and the American Revolution. Ed. by Bernard Bailyn and John B. Hench. (Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1980. 383 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $24.95.) Get access Thomas C. Leonard Thomas C. Leonard University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 4, March 1981, Pages 905–906, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888071 …
Objectivity and the News: The Public and the Rise of Commercial Journalism
Journal Article Objectivity and the News: The Pubhc and the Rise of Commercial Journalism. By Dan Schiller. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981. xv + 222 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $20.00.) Get access Thomas C. Leonard Thomas C. Leonard University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 4, March …
The "Bully" Pulpit: Who Listened
The Power of the Press: The Birth of American Political Reporting
Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933-1945
Journal Article Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933–1943. By Deborah E. Lipstadt. (New York: Free Press, 1986. xi + 370 pp. $19.95.) Get access Thomas C. Leonard Thomas C. Leonard University of CaliforniaBerkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 2, September 1986, Pages 513–514, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908319 Published: 01 Se…
The Power of the Press
One Good Libel Deserves Another
Column Right: Conservative Journalists in the Service of Nationalism
Journal Article Column Right: Conservative Journalists in the Service of Nationalism. By David Burner and Thomas R. West. (New York: New York University Press, 1988. ix + 115 pp. $19.95.) Get access Thomas C. Leonard Thomas C. Leonard University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 2, September 1989, Pages 654–655, https://doi.org/10.2307/190…
Home Town News: William Allen White and the Emporia Gazette
Journal Article Home Town News: William Allen White and the Emporia Gazette. By Sally Foreman Griffith. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. x + 291 pp. $24.95.) Get access Thomas C. Leonard Thomas C. Leonard University of California Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 4, March 1990, Page 1293, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936669 Published: 01 March 1990
The Beaten Path to the History of a Free Press
United States
Recovering "Wretched Stuff" and the Franklins' Synergy
Parricide on the QT: Notoriety and knowingness at the dawn of new media
The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life
Journal Article The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life. By Michael Schudson. (New York: Free Press, 1998. x, 390 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-684-82729-8.) Get access Thomas C. Leonard Thomas C. Leonard University of California, Berkeley, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 3, December 1999, Pages 1322–1323, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568629 Published: 0…
The Very Idea of Applying Economics: The Modern Minimum-Wage Controversy and Its Antecedents
Research Article| December 01 2000 The Very Idea of Applying Economics: The Modern Minimum-Wage Controversy and Its Antecedents Thomas C. Leonard Thomas C. Leonard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (Suppl_1): 117–144. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-32-Suppl_1-117 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas C. Leonard; The Very Idea of Applying Ec…
Economics at the millennium
Darwinism and Evolutionary Economics
Book Review| June 01 2003 Darwinism and Evolutionary Economics Edited by John Laurent and John Nightingale. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2001. xii; 254 pp. $90.00. Thomas C. Leonard Thomas C. Leonard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (2): 350–353. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-35-2-350 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Cita…
A Certain Rude Honesty: John Bates Clark as a Pioneering Neoclassical Economist
Research Article| September 01 2003 “A Certain Rude Honesty”: John Bates Clark as a Pioneering Neoclassical Economist Thomas C. Leonard Thomas C. Leonard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (3): 521–558. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-35-3-521 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas C. Leonard; “A Certain Rude Honesty”:…
More Merciful and Not Less Effective: Eugenics and American Economics in the Progressive Era
Research Article| November 01 2003 "More Merciful and Not Less Effective": Eugenics and American Economics in the Progressive Era Thomas C. Leonard Thomas C. Leonard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (4): 687-712. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-35-4-687 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Li…
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