Thomas C. Leonard
{{short description|American economist}}
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Thomas C. Leonard is an American historian of economics and scholarly authority on American economic life during the late 19th and early 20th centuries at Princeton.{{cite web |url=http://scholar.princeton.edu/tleonard/research |title=Research |newspaper=Scholar.princeton.edu |date= |author= |accessdate= April 11, 2016}}
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 [https://humanities.princeton.edu/2017/07/05/thomas-leonard-awarded-2017-joseph-j-spengler-prize/ 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.
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