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

Princeton Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine ...

. 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'' th
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

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