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Thomas C. Leonard

21 works· latest 2016· 2 institutionscluster: provisional

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Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers1979 · 1,458 citations
The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life.1999 · 842 citations
Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving decisions about health, wealth, and happiness2008 · 320 citations
Illiberal Reformers2016 · 286 citations
So what's an economic metaphor?1994 · 173 citations

Works

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Illiberal Reformers

Princeton University Press eBooks·2016·1 author·book

286citations

Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era

Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University)·2016·1 author

55citations

Origins of the myth of social Darwinism: The ambiguous legacy of Richard Hofstadter's Social Darwinism in American Thought

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization·2009·1 author·Open access

99citations

American Economic Reform in the Progressive Era: Its Foundational Beliefs and Their Relation to Eugenics

History of Political Economy·2009·1 author

43citations

Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving decisions about health, wealth, and happiness

Constitutional Political Economy·2008·1 author

320citations

Mistaking Eugenics for Social Darwinism: Why Eugenics Is Missing from the History of American Economics

History of Political Economy·2005·1 author

Retrospectives: Eugenics and Economics in the Progressive Era

The Journal of Economic Perspectives·2005·1 author

149citations

INEQUALITY OF WHAT AMONG WHOM?: RIVAL CONCEPTIONS OF DISTRIBUTION IN THE 20TH CENTURY

Research in the history of economic thought and methodology·2005·2 authors·chapter

25citations

Protecting Family and Race

American Journal of Economics and Sociology·2005·1 author

46citations

“More Merciful and Not Less Effective”: Eugenics and American Economics in the Progressive Era

History of Political Economy·2003·1 author·Open access

111citations

Reflection on rules in science: an invisible-hand perspective

Journal of Economic Methodology·2002·1 author·Open access

50citations

The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life.

Journal of American History·1999·2 authors·other

842citations

News for all: America's coming-of-age with the press

Choice Reviews Online·1996·1 author·other·Open access

76citations

So what's an economic metaphor?

Cambridge University Press eBooks·1994·2 authors·chapter

173citations

The Power of the Press: The Birth of American Political Reporting

The American Historical Review·1987·2 authors

48citations

Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933-1945

Journal of American History·1986·2 authors·other

38citations

The Power of the Press: The Birth of American Political Reporting

Journal of the Early Republic·1986·2 authors

26citations

Objectivity and the News: The Public and the Rise of Commercial Journalism

Journal of American History·1982·2 authors

27citations

The Press and the American Revolution

Journal of American History·1981·3 authors

127citations

Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers

Journal of American History·1979·2 authors

1,458citations