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Illiberal reformers : race, eugenics & 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. Bu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Leonard, Thomas C., 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • Part I. The Progressive Ascendancy. 1. Redeeming American Economic Life
  • 2. Turning Illiberal
  • 3. Becoming Experts
  • 4. Efficiency in Business and Public Administration
  • Part II. The Progressive Paradox. 5. Valuing Labor: What Should Labor Get?
  • 6. Darwinism in Economic Reform
  • 7. Eugenics and Race in Economic Reform
  • 8. Excluding the Unemployable
  • 9. Excluding Immigrants and the Unproductive
  • 10. Excluding Women
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index.