Tag: Illiberal Reformers

Minimum Wage, Nativism, and the Illiberal Roots of Progressivism

Dec 11, 2015

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by

mwkruse

in Economics, History, Politics, Public Policy, Race, Wealth and Income

Virginia Postrel has an interesting article at Bloomberg, "Progressive and Racist. Woodrow Wilson Wasn't Alone," a book review of Thomas Lenoard's Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics and American Economics in the Progressive Era. Here are a few key quotes: The progressives believed, first and foremost, in the importance of science and scientific experts in guiding the…