1st Edition
Conceptualizing Progress Controversies in Progressive Era American Economics
Introduction: Controversies on the concept of progress in Progressive Era American Economics
Giandomenica Becchio and Guillaume Vallet
1. On the idea of progress: controversies and agreements between conservative and progressive economists during the progressive era
Michel Rocca and Guillaume Vallet
2. Progressivism, socialism, and the role of the state
Marianne Johnson
3. Right living, wise spending: Ellen Richards’s progressive art of budgeting
David Philippy
4. James A. Field: the making and unmaking of an eugenist
Luca Fiorito
5. Irving Fisher on conservation, national vitality and economic progress
Robert W. Dimand
Biography
Giandomenica Becchio is Full Professor of History of Economic Thought at the University of Torino (ESOMAS Department) in Italy. Her research specializes in the intersection of feminist economics, the methodology of economics, and the classical liberal tradition. She has published extensively on the history of economic thought and contemporary economic methodology.
Guillaume Vallet is Fulbright Scholar, Full Professor of Economics at the University of Grenoble Alpes and researcher and co-director at the Grenoble Economic Research Center (CREG) in France. His research interests encompass economic theory, the history of economic thought, and contemporary economic policy. He has contributed significantly to scholarly debates on economic methodology and institutional economics.
