Right living, wise spending
Ellen Richards’s progressive art of budgeting
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21604752 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Philippy (0000-0001-8233-2129, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 688-711 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of the History of Economic Thought (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0967-2567 • E-ISSN: 1469-5936 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09672567.2025.2509525 |
| OpenAlex | W4411141384 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 53 |
This article examines the progressive aspects of home economics’ approach to consumption, focusing on budgeting. It highlights how Ellen Richards framed the study of consumption as a progressive response to the changing role of women at the turn of the century. I argue that Richards’s concept of suggested budgets framed the choice problem to guide women in the emerging modern consumerism and encapsulates the essence of her progressive agenda. This educational approach emphasized a dual sense of control, and can be appreciated as a distinctive feature of home economists’ progressivism, contrasting with the prevalent trend of reformism centered on regulation
Economics · Keynesian economics · Political and Economic history of UK and US
Women Scientists in America
The Rise and Fall of American Growth
Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform 1890–1935
Inequalities and the Progressive Era
Capital Theory and Racism
Settlement Folk
Ellen Richards’s Home Economics Movement and the Birth of the Economics of Consumption
Rebuilding the economy of the home – for the emergence of the “new woman”
Progressivism
Rethinking Home Economics
The Origins of American Social Science
Ellen Swallow Richards
Housewife Vs. Economist”
Food Prices and the Cost of Living
Natural Allies
Endless Crusade
Reformer in the Marketplace
The High Cost of Living in the Progressives' Economy
Pittsburgh Surveyed
The Monetary Side of the Cost of Living Problem
War Loans, Inflation and the High Cost of Living
Cost of Living and Wage Determination
In Search of Progressivism
Navigating the Shoals of Self-Reporting
It Might Have Been Euthenics
Ellen Swallow Richards
Creating Consumers
Crossing the doorsteps for social reform
Tariffs and Trusts, Profiteers and Middlemen
Conservation and Cleanliness
American Economic Reform in the Progressive Era
Religion and Evolution in Progressive Era Political Economy
More Merciful and Not Less Effective
American economists and the high cost of living
Order and Control in American Socio-Economic Thought
Hull House in the 1890s
Breed Out the Unfit and Breed In the Fit
Protecting Family and Race
The New England Kitchen and the Origins of Modern American Eating Habits
The Social Survey Movement and Sociology in the United States
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |