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Eugenics and Socialist Thought in the Progressive Era: the Case of James Medbery Mackaye
Journal of the History of Economic Thought EUGENICS AND SOCIALIST THOUGHT IN THE PROGRESSIVE ERA: THE CASE OF JAMES MEDBERY MACKAYE BY LUCA Fiorito AND TIZiana FORESTI The aim of this essay is to assess James Medbery MacKaye’s contribution to socialist thought during the Progressive Era. Largely forgotten today, MacKaye proposed a special version of socialism, which he called “Pantocracy,” based on a peculiar blend of utilitarian and eugenic assumptions. Specifically, MacKaye held that biological fitness mapped to the capacity for happiness—biologically superior individuals possess a greater capacity for happiness—and saw the eugenic breeding of “a being or race of beings capable in the first place of happiness” as a possibility open by the advent of Pantocracy. Incidentally, this essay provides further evidence that the influence of eugenic and racialist beliefs upon the American Progressive Era political economy was so deep-rooted and pervasive that it did cut across traditional ideological boundaries. “The Economy of Happiness,” working through the rigid precision of scientific method, is a philosophy which finds its ultimate justification in the joy of men and the laughter of a child. —Walter Lippmann, “All the MacKayes” I. INTRODUCTION: THE ISSUE The influence of eugenicist and racialist beliefs upon the American Progressive Era political economy was so deep-rooted and pervasive that it cut across traditional ideo- logical boundaries. As Thomas C. Leonard (2016, p. xiii) recently pointed out, not only progressives such as Richard T. Ely, John R. Commons, and Edward A. Ross, but “conservatives and socialists also drank deeply from the seemingly bottomless Luca Fiorito, Università degli Studi di Palermo; Tiziana Foresti, Bocconi University. -
The War Against Nature: Benton Mackaye's Regional Planning
THE WAR AGAINST NATURE: BENTON MACKAYE’S REGIONAL PLANNING PHILOSOPHY AND THE PURSUIT OF BALANCE by Julie Ann Gavran APPROVED BY SUPERVISORY COMMITTEE: ___________________________________________ Eric R. Schlereth, Chair ___________________________________________ Matthew J. Brown ___________________________________________ Pamela S. Gossin ___________________________________________ Peter K. J. Park Copyright 2017 Julie Ann Gavran All Rights Reserved THE WAR AGAINST NATURE: BENTON MACKAYE’S REGIONAL PLANNING PHILOSOPHY AND THE PURSUIT OF BALANCE by JULIE ANN GAVRAN, BA, MA DISSERTATION Presented to the Faculty of The University of Texas at Dallas in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN HUMANITIES – HISTORY OF IDEAS THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS May 2017 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I have received tremendous support from many individuals in the past thirteen years. Drs. John Marazita and Ron Carstens have been mentors, colleagues, and friends from my early academic beginning at Ohio Dominican University. I would especially like to thank my dissertation chair, Dr. Eric Schlereth, for providing me with the final push and guidance to complete this project. I would like to thank the rest of my committee, Drs. Matthew Brown, Pamela Gossin, and Peter Park, for your support throughout the many years of coursework and research, and for helping lay the foundation of this project. I would like to thank the countless people I spoke to throughout the many years of research, especially the staff at Rauner Special Collections Library at Dartmouth College, the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, and the many people who knew Benton personally. Finally, thanks to Drs. Jim Cannici and Gabe Yeamans for providing me lending ears and hearts without which I could not have finished this project. -
Sperling, John TITLE ECON 12: Student Materials. Unit I. Test
DOCUMENT RESUME ED 053 048 SO 001 700 AUTHOR Wiggins, Suzanne; Sperling, John ., . TITLE ECON 12: Student Materials. Unit I. Test Edition. INSTITUTION San Jose State Coll., Calif. PUB DATE 68 NOTE 334p. EDRS PRICE EDRS Price MF-$0.65 HC-$13.16 DESCRIPTORS *Concept Teaching, Criterion Referenced Tests, *Economic Education, Experimental Curriculum, Grade 12, Inquiry Training, Instructional Materials, Learning Activities, *Problem Solving, *Programed Materials, Resource Units, Secondary Grades, Social Studies Units, Textbooks, Workbooks IDENTIFIERS *ECON 12 ABSTRACT This revision and expansion of the 1966 edition of the student materials, ED 040 101, is comprised of student workbook and text for Unit I. As an introduction to economics, it is designed to provide a frame of reference for the study of contemporary economic problems. It is a careful study of such concepts as scarcity, wants, resources, and decision-making with respect to the various economic activities found in all economies, and how these activities are organized into economic systems. Economic concepts and their relationships to the other social sciences are stressed incorporating the basic strategy of problem-solving through inquiry. The seven chapter text includes general discussions by the principal author; twenty-eight readings, including some historical resources, others from foreign countries, and several by the author, are keyed to most, of the chapters. The programmed student workbook contains seven programs, criterion tests, and twelve exercises. An extensive use of graphs is continued in the revision, but the unit test is not repeated. Unit II is described in SO 001 701. Other available related documents are: 1) the test editions of the Teacher's Materials for both Unit I and Unit II, ED 040 100; and, 2) the final report of the curriculum development project, ED 028 093. -
Radical Conservation and the Politics of Planning: a Historical Study, 1917-1945
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by University of Oregon Scholars' Bank RADICAL CONSERVATION AND THE POLITICS OF PLANNING: A HISTORICAL STUDY, 1917-1945 by CADE A. JAMESON A DISSERTATION Presented to the Department of Sociology and the Graduate School of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy June 2017 DISSERTATION APPROVAL PAGE Student: Cade A. Jameson Title: Radical Conservation and the Politics of Planning: A Historical Study, 1917-1945 This dissertation has been accepted and approved in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in the Department of Sociology by: John Bellamy Foster Chairperson Vallon Burris Core Member Richard York Core Member Joseph Fracchia Institutional Representative and Scott L. Pratt Dean of the Graduate School Original approval signatures are on file with the University of Oregon Graduate School. Degree awarded June 2017 ii c 2017 Cade A. Jameson iii DISSERTATION ABSTRACT Cade A. Jameson Doctor of Philosophy Department of Sociology June 2017 Title: Radical Conservation and the Politics of Planning: A Historical Study, 1917-1945 This thesis is a historical, sociological case-study of the movement for public control and land-use planning prior to WWII. The impetus for this movement came from a radicalized faction of the forestry profession. Radicalism in forestry centered around a group of professional foresters who were followers of Gifford Pinchot, the nation’s Chief Forester from 1898-1910. Pinchot commenced the movement for public control over cutting on private forestlands in in the nineteen-teens. -
Eugenics and Socialist Thought in the Progressive Era
EUGENICS AND SOCIALIST THOUGHT IN THE PROGRESSIVE ERA: THE CASE OF JAMES MEDBERY MACKAYE BY LUCA FIORITO1 AND TIZIANA FORESTI2 1: Universita degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy. Email: [email protected]. 2: Baffi Center on International Markets, Money and Regulation, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy. Email: [email protected]. This “preprint” is the peer-reviewed and accepted typescript of an article that is forthcoming in revised form, after minor editorial changes, in the Journal of the History of Economic Thought (ISSN: 1053-8372), volume 40 (2018), issue TBA. Copyright to the journal’s articles is held by the History of Economics Society (HES), whose exclusive licensee and publisher for the journal is Cambridge University Press (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal- of-the-history-of-economic-thought ). This preprint may be used only for private research and study and is not to be distributed further. The preprint may be cited as follows: Fiorito, Luca and Foresti, Tiziana. “Eugenics and Socialist Thought in the Progressive Era: The Case of James Medbery Mackaye.” Journal of the History of Economic Thought 40 (forthcoming). Preprint at SocArXiv, osf.io/preprints/socarxiv 1 “The Economy of Happiness,” working through the rigid precision of scientific method, is a philosophy which finds its ultimate justification in the joy of men and the laughter of a child. (Lippmann 1911, 29) 1. The issue The influence of eugenicist and racialist beliefs upon American progressive era political economy was so deep-rooted and pervasive that it cut across traditional ideological boundaries. As Thomas C. Leonard (2016, xiii) recently pointed out, not only progressives like Richard T.