Thomas C. Leonard is a historian of economics and scholarly authority on American economic life during the late 19th and early 20th centuries at Princeton.[1]

He is perhaps best known for his book Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics and American Economics in the Progressive Era. In 2017, the History of Economics Society awarded Illiberal Reformers the Joseph J. Spengler Prize for book of the year.

Selected publications

  • Leonard, T. C. (2005). Retrospectives: Eugenics and economics in the progressive era. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 19(4), 207-224.
  • Leonard, T. C. (2016). Illiberal reformers. Princeton University Press.
  • Klamer A,Leonard TC (1994) So what’s an economic metaphor? In: Mirowski P (ed) Natural images in economic thought: markets read in tooth and claw ,pp 20–51. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge New York
  • Leonard, T. C. (2000). The very idea of applying economics: The modern minimum-wage controversy and its antecedents. History of Political Economy, 32(Suppl_1), 117-144.

References

  1. ↑ "Research". Scholar.princeton.edu. Retrieved April 11, 2016.
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