Retrospectives
Eugenics and Economics in the Progressive Era
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4030352 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas C Leonard (Lecturer in Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 207-224 |
| Publication date | 2005-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0895-3309 • E-ISSN: 1944-7965 |
| Publisher | American Economic Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1257/089533005775196642 |
| OpenAlex | W2142768257 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 39 |
| References cited | 40 |
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
Development economics · Economics · Eugenics · Immigration · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Progressive era · Social reform · Sociology · American History and Culture · Canadian Identity and History · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law
Coupling a Federal Minimum Wage Hike with Public Investments to Make Work Pay and Reduce Poverty
The market and the masses
Aesthetics in the Eugenics Movement
Biopolitics and Historic Justice
Inventing the Feeble Mind
Living and Working in the Institution, 1890–1920
Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives
Race, competition, and institutional change in J.R. Commons
Gentrification through Housing
Origins of the myth of social Darwinism
The economics of race and eugenic sterilization in North Carolina
The Power of Racial Mapping
On Simon Nelson Patten’s Progressivism
Adam Smith in his time and ours
L’économie des discriminations
Racisme scientifique et « race » chez John Rogers Commons
From race matching to transracial adoption
Apologists for growth
Disablism, racism and the spectre of eugenics in digital welfare
Time Period, Generational, and Age Differences in Tolerance for Controversial Beliefs and Lifestyles in the United States, 1972–2012
Happily Ever After
A Brave New World
Foetal programming meets human capital
Degeneration, Protestantism, and Social Democracy
Disciplining the human rights of immigrants
Making Real Estate Markets
Harold A. Black academic conference
The nexus of academic knowledge, political agendas, and self-identification in census ethnoracial classification
Compassionate' Control
Survival Value and a Robust, Practical, Joyless Individualism
Economics and Anti-Semitism
Keynesian Historiography and the Anti-Semitism Question
Not so 'dumb money'? Constituting professionals and amateurs in the history of finance capitalism
Designating Dependency
Eugenics and the Interwar Approach to Inventors and Invention
American Economic Reform in the Progressive Era
"The "Vanity of the Philosopher
Social Anthropology in Economic Literature at the End of the 19th Century
The racialization of privacy
Quality and quantity
A history of political economy
The blood of the nation, a study of the decay of races through the survival of the unfit
Cours d’économie politique, by C. Colson
The Moral Aspects of Socialism
An American Dilemma
Cours d'économie politique
The Discourse of Race in Modern China
The Minimum Wage
The Economic Theory of a Legal Minimum Wage
Selection of Immigration
The Minimum Wage as Part of a Program for Social Reform
The Causes of Race Superiority
Immigration and the Minimum Wage
Advocacy and Objectivity
Recent Tendencies in Sociology III
Seventy Years of It
Why Not Equal Protection? Explaining the Politics of Public Social Spending in Britain, 1900-1911, and the United States, 1880s-1920
Eugenics and the Left
The Very Idea of Applying Economics
More Merciful and Not Less Effective
The State and the Poor
The Oregon Minimum-Wage Cases
Control of Immigration. I
Control of Immigration. II
Control of Immigration. III
Protecting Family and Race
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Walker's Theory of Immigration
Minimum-Wage Boards
The Paradox of Immigration
Are Modern Industry and City Life Unfavorable to the Family
Social Darwinism
Western Civilization and the Birth-Rate
Eugenics
| Unique citing works | 39 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,17 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 36 |