TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fiorito,Luca
TI  - Between Progressivism and Instituionalism: Albert Wolfe on Eugenics
AV  - HB75 JOU 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Progressivism and Institutionalism
N2  - Albeit concerned with the biological element in social evolution, Albert B. Wolfe was among the very few economists of the progressive era who openly expressed their concerns about certain implications of eugenic rhetoric for the social science. Specifically, Wolfe questioned the strong hereditary boundaries that more extreme eugenicists suggested about human beings. A careful examination of Wolfe’s writings reveals that his reaction was rooted in the belief that many of the social problems that eugenicists attributed to hereditary limitations were actually imputable to the influence that the social, economic, and physical environment exercised on the individuals
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S105383721300028X
ER  -