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Hereditarianism, Eugenics and American Social Science in the Interwar Years: Meet the Carverians

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  • Fiorito, Luca
  • Erasmo, Valentina

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The aim of this paper is to document Carver’s influence as a teacher and to shed further light on Harvard’s role as the “brain trust” of American eugenics (Fiorito 2019). On the same time, in more general terms, what follow adds to our general understanding of the extent to which biological considerations continued to permeate American social science well after the first two decades of the last century, the period which marked the "golden age" of eugenics (Leonard 2016).

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  • Fiorito, Luca & Erasmo, Valentina, 2022. "Hereditarianism, Eugenics and American Social Science in the Interwar Years: Meet the Carverians," SocArXiv 7t59c, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:7t59c
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/7t59c
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    1. Fiorito, Luca, 2013. "Between Progressivism and Institutionalism: Albert Benedict Wolfe on Eugenics," Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Cambridge University Press, vol. 35(4), pages 449-469, December.
    2. Thomas C. Leonard, 2005. "Mistaking Eugenics for Social Darwinism: Why Eugenics Is Missing from the History of American Economics," History of Political Economy, Duke University Press, vol. 37(5), pages 200-233, Supplemen.
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