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**Praised by the __New York Times Book Review__ as a "vital account of the perils of intellectual arrogance," a troubling story of liberal economists, race, and eugenics** 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. But not for all. Academic social scientists such as Richard T. Ely, John R. Commons, and Edward A. Ross, together with their reform allies in social work, charity, journalism, and law, played a pivotal role in establishing minimum-wage and maximum-hours laws, workmen's compensation, progressive income taxes, antitrust regulation, and other hallmarks of the regulatory welfare state. But even as they offered uplift to some, economic progressives advocated exclusion for others, and did both in the name of progress. Leonard meticulously reconstructs the influence of Darwinism, racial science, and eugenics on scholars and activists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, revealing a reform community deeply amb

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Author

Thomas C. Leonard

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400874071

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Political Science, Economics

Rating

4.6 / 5 (198 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14