"More merciful and not less effective": Eugenics and American economics in the progressive era

History of Political Economy

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 687-712

  Leonard, Thomas C ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC HISTORY; ECONOMICS; ETHICS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1842787387     PISSN: 00182702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/00182702-35-4-687     Document Type: Article

References (81)

1. Ball, Sidney. 1896. The Moral Aspects of Socialism. International Journal of Ethics 6.3:290-322.
2. Bemis, Edward W. 1888. Restriction of Immigration. Andover Review 9 (March): 251-64.
3. Broberg, Gunnar, and Mattias Tydén. 1996. Eugenics in Sweden: Efficient Care. In Eugenics andthe Welfare State, edited by Gunnar Broberg and Nils Roll-Hansen, 77-149. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press.
4. Clark, John Bates. 1899. The Distribution of Wealth: A Theory of Wages, Interest, and Profits. New York: Macmillan.
5. Commons, John R. 1897. Natural Selection, Social Selection, and Heredity. Arena 18:90-97.
6. Commons, John R. 1907. Races and Immigrants in America. New York: Chautauqua Press.
7. Cot, Annie L. 1989. Legène et l'intérêt: L'anamorphose d'Irving Fisher. Économies et sociétés 23.6:89-107.
8. Dugdale, Richard. 1877. The "Jukes": A Study in Crime, Pauperism, Disease, and Heredity. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.
9. Fairchild, Henry Pratt. 1911. The Paradox of Immigration. American Journal of Sociology 17.2:254-67.
10. Farnam, Henry W. 1888. The State and the Poor. Political Science Quarterly 3.2:282-310.
11. Fetter, Frank A. 1899. Social Progress and Race Degeneration. Forum 28 (October): 228-38.
12. Fetter, Frank A. 1913. Population or Prosperity. American Economic Review 3.1 (supplement): 5-19.
13. Fine, Sidney. 1956. Laissez-Faire Thought and the General Welfare State: A Study of Conflict in American Thought, 1865-1901. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
14. Fisher, Irving. 1907. Why Has the Doctrine of Laissez Faire Been Abandoned? Science, n.s., 25.627:18-27.
15. Fisher, Irving. 1921. Impending Problems of Eugenics. Scientific Monthly 13.3:214-31.
16. Freeden, Michael. 1979. Eugenics and Progressive Thought: A Study in Ideological Affinity. Historical Journal 22.3:645-71.
17. Furner, Mary. 1975. Advocacy and Objectivity: A Crisis in the Professionalization of American Social Science, 1865-1905. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
18. Galton, Francis. 1869. Hereditary Genius. London: Macmillan.
19. Galton, Francis. 1883. Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development. London: J.M. Dent and Sons.
20. Galton, Francis. 1908. Memoirs of My Life. London: Methuen.
21. Gould, Stephen Jay. 1981. The Mismeasure of Man. New York: Norton.
22. Grant, Madison. [1916] 1921. The Passing of the Great Race or, The Racial Basis of European History. 4th ed. New York: C. Scribner's Sons.
23. Hall, Prescott. 1904. Selection of Immigration. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 19:169-84.
24. Haller, Mark H. 1984. Eugenics: Hereditarian Attitudes in American Thought. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.
25. Henderson, Charles Richmond. 1900. Science in Philanthropy. Atlantic Monthly 85.508:249-54.
26. Henderson, Charles Richmond. 1909. Are Modern Industry and City Life Unfavorable to the Family? American Economic Association Quarterly, 3d ser,. 10.1:217-32.
27. Hodgson, Dennis. 1991. Ideological Origins of the Population Association of America. Population and Development Review 17.1:1-34.
28. Hoffman, Frederick L. 1896. The Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro. Publications of the American Economic Association 11.1-3:1-329.
29. Kellogg, Paul. 1913. Immigration and the Minimum Wage. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 48 (July): 66-77.
30. Kevles, Daniel. 1995. In the Name of Eugenics. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
31. Kevles, Daniel. 1999. Eugenics and Human Rights. British Medical Journal 318:435-38.
32. King, Miriam, and Steven Ruggles. 1990. American Immigration, Fertility, and Race Suicide at the Turn of the Century. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 20.3:347-69.
33. Kuczynski, R. R. 1901. The Fecundity of the Native and Foreign Born Population in Massachusetts. Quarterly Journal of Economics 16.1:1-36.
34. Leonard, Thomas C. 2000. The Very Idea of Applying Economics: The Modern Minimum-Wage Controversy and Its Antecedents. In Toward a History of Applied Economics, edited by Roger Backhouse and Jeff Biddle. HOPE 32 (supplement): 117-44.
35. Leonard, Thomas C. 2003a. "A Certain Rude Honesty": John Bates Clark as a Pioneering Neo-classical Economist. HOPE 35.3:521-58.
36. Leonard, THomas C. 2003b. American Progressive-Era Political Economy: The Case of Legal Minimum Wages. Unpublished manuscript.
37. Ludmerer, Kenneth M. 1972. Genetics and American Society. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.
38. Mayo-Smith, Richmond. 1888a. Control of Immigration I. Political Science Quarterly 3.1:46-77.
39. Mayo-Smith, Richmond. 1888b. Control of Immigration II. Political Science Quarterly 3.2:197-225.
40. Mayo-Smith, Richmond. 1888c. Control of Immigration III. Political Science Quarterly 3.3:409-24.
41. Meeker, Royal. 1910. Review of Cours d'économie politique. Political Science Quarterly 25.3:543-45.
42. Menand, Louis. 2001. The Metaphysical Club. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
43. Miller, Kelly. 1917. Eugenics of the Negro Race. Scientific Monthly 5.1:57-59.
44. Morton, Samuel G. 1839. Crania Americana. Philadelphia: John Pennington.
45. Moss, David. 1996. Socializing Security: Progressive-Era Economists and the Origins of American Social Policy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
46. Myrdal, Gunnar (with the assistance of Richard Sterner and Arnold Rose). 1944. An American Dilemma. 2 vols. New York: Harper and Brothers.
47. Nearing, Scott. 1912. The Super Race: An American Problem. New York: B.W. Huebsch.
48. Orloff, Ann Shola, and Theda Skocpol. 1984. Why Not Equal Protection? Explaining the Politics of Public Social Spending in Britain, 1900-1911, and the United States, 1880s-1920. American Sociological Review 49.6:726-50.
49. Patten, Simon N. 1909. The Making of Economic Literature. Annual Address of the President. American Economic Association Quarterly, 3d ser., 10.1:1-14.
50. Patten, Simon N. 1912. Theories of Progress. American Economic Review 2.1:61-68.
51. Paul, Diane. 1984. Eugenics and the Left. Journal of the History of Ideas 45.4:567-90.
52. Paul, Diane. 2001. History of Eugenics. International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, edited by Neil Smelser and Paul Baltes. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
53. Pigou, A. C. 1907. Social Improvement in the Light of Modern Biology. Economic Journal 17.67:358-69.
54. Ripley, William Z. 1899. The Races of Europe: A Sociological Study. New York: D. Appleton and Co.
55. Riis, Jacob. [1890] 1997. How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York. New York: Penguin Books.
56. Rodgers, Daniel T. 1982. In Search of Progressivism. Reviews in American History 10:113-32.
57. Rodgers, Daniel T. 1998. Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press.
58. Roosevelt, Theodore. 1907. A Letter from President Roosevelt on Race Suicide. American Monthly Review of Reviews 35.5:550-51.
59. Ross, Dorothy. 1991. The Origins of American Social Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
60. Ross, Edward Alsworth. 1901a. The Causes of Race Superiority. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 18.1:67-89.
61. Ross, Edward Alsworth. 1901b. Social Control: A Survey of the Foundations of Order. New York: Macmillan.
62. Ross, Edward Alsworth. 1907. Social Darwinism. American Journal of Sociology 12.5:695-716.
63. Ross, Edward Alsworth. 1936. Seventy Years of It. New York: D. Appleton-Century Company.
64. Seager, Henry Rogers. 1913a. The Minimum Wage as Part of a Program for Social Reform. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 48 (July): 3-12.
65. Seager, Henry Rogers. 1913b. The Theory of the Minimum Wage. American Labor Legislation Review 3:81-91.
66. Seager, Henry Rogers. 1923. Principles of Economics. 3d ed., rev. New York: Henry Holt.
67. Skocpol, Theda. 1992. Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in The United States. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
68. Taussig, Frank W. 1921. Principles of Economics. Vol 2. 3d ed., rev. New York: Macmillan.
69. Tugwell, Rexford. 1923. Notes on the Life and Work of Simon Nelson Patten. Journal of Political Economy 31.2:153-208.
70. von Thünen, J. H. [1850] 1966. Isolated State: An English edition of Der isolierte Staat. Translated by Carla M. Wartenberg. Oxford: Pergamon Press.
71. Walker, Francis Amasa. 1891. Immigration and Degradation. Forum (August): 11:634-644.
72. Walker, Francis Amasa. 1892. Immigration, Yale Review 1.2:125-45.
73. Walker, Francis Amasa. 1896. Restriction of Immigration. Atlantic 77:822-29.
74. walker, Francis Amasa. 1899. Discussions in Economics and Statistics. Vol 2. Edited by Davis Dewey. New York: Henry Holt and Co.
75. Ward, Lester. 1913. Eugenics, Euthenics, and Eudemics. American Journal of Sociology 18.6:737-54.
76. Webb, Sidney. 1910-11. Eugenics and the Poor Law: The Minority Report. Eugenics Review 2:233-41.
77. Webb, Sidney. 1912. The Economic Theory of a Legal Minimum Wage. Journal of Political Economy 20.10:973-98.
78. Webb, Sidney, and Beatrice Webb. [1897] 1920. Industrial Democracy. London: Longmans Green.
79. Wilcox, Walter. 1914. Differential Fecundity. Journal of Heredity 5:141-48.
80. Wolfe, A. B. 1917. Some Phases of the Minimum Wage: Discussion. American Economic Review 7.1:275-81.
81. Young, Allyn A. 1905. The Birth-Rate in New Hampshire. Publications of the American Statistical Association 9.71:263-91.