"Wesley Clair Mitchell and the "Illiberal Reformers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4298697 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Luca Fiorito (0000-0002-6091-3974, University of Trento (Italy), and Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland)), Massimiliano Vatiero (0000-0002-2886-9870) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 35-56 |
| Publication date | 2021-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2702 • E-ISSN: 1527-1919 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00182702-8816601 |
| OpenAlex | W3110644191 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
The aim of this article is to assess whether Wesley Clair Mitchell, as a reformer, ever expressed concern over the biological quality of individuals and whether he did somehow share the Progressive Era faith in eugenics as an instrument for improving American society's health, welfare, and morals. Using both published and unpublished evidence, we argue that, as an institutionalist, Mitchell was free from the paternalistic and antidemocratic bent of the progressives and was ready to accept the new faith in the plasticity of human nature that sustained interwar reformism. At the same time, as someone who had been exposed to the Progressive Era cultural milieu, he could not completely divorce himself from the earlier decades' preoccupation with the biological quality of individuals
Environmental ethics · Eugenics · Faith · Law and economics · Paternalism · Political science · Progressive era · Sociology · Theology · Welfare · American History and Culture · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Medical History and Research · Philosophy
The distribution of wealth
The retreat of scientific racism
The Institutionalist Movement in American Economics, 1918–1947
"The World of Hope"
Progressive Economists and Scientific Racism
Social Science and the Making of Social Policy
Illiberal Reformers
Carving up Population Science
Carving up Population Science
The Quantity Theory of the Value of Money
The Fall of Fertility among European Races
Wesley Clair Mitchell
Report of an Enquiry by the Board of Trade into Working-Class Rents, Housing, and Retail Prices, together with the Rates of Wages in certain Occupations in the Principal Industrial Towns of France
The Backward Art of Spending Money
American Immigration
A Citation Analysis of the Sources and Extent of Wesley Mitchell's Reputation
More Merciful and Not Less Effective
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |