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Journal of the History of Economic Thought Preprints - Eugenics and Socialist Thought in the Progressive Era: The Case of James Medbery Mackaye

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The article proposes an analysis of James MacKaye’s socialism and its relation to eugenics in the early years of the Progressive Era. In this respect, our work, showing as it does the pervasiveness of eugenics independently from traditional ideological boundaries, represents a further contribution to the Eugenics in the Progressive era debate inaugurated by Thomas Leonard’s Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era (2016). At the same time, this paper contributes to the strand of literature that deals with the economic elaboration of the idea of differential capacities for happiness, of which the works of Levy and Peart represent the most recent examples. MacKaye is almost an unknown character today, but in his day he was quite influential and his peculiar brand of socialism deserves some critical attention.

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  • Foresti, Tiziana, 2018. "Journal of the History of Economic Thought Preprints - Eugenics and Socialist Thought in the Progressive Era: The Case of James Medbery Mackaye," SocArXiv tzcef, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:tzcef
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/tzcef
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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.
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