Table Of ContentInequalities and the Progressive Era
Inequalities and the
Progressive Era
Breakthroughs and Legacies
Edited by
Guillaume Vallet
Associate Professor in Economics, University of Grenoble
Alpes, and Research Fellow at Centre de Recherche en
Économie de Grenoble (CREG), and Institut de Recherche
pour l’Economie Politique de l’Entreprise (IREPE), France
and Associate Researcher, Institute of Sociological Research of
Geneva, Switzerland
Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA
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Contents
List of contributors viii
Foreword by Stephany Griffith-Jones xiv
Acknowledgements xv
Introduction xvi
PART I FOUNDATIONS OF INEQUALITIES
1 The question of inequalities during the Progressive Era
in the United States: the “Golden Mean” program of the
economist Richard T. Ely 2
Michel Rocca
2 The progressive view of Old Institutionalism: business
ethics, industrial democracy and reasonable capitalism 16
Virgile Chassagnon and Benjamin Dubrion
3 Inequalities and the dynamics of capitalism: will
democracy survive? Albion W. Small’s view 30
Guillaume Vallet
4 Forgetting and remembering the Chicago School of
Columbus, Ohio: Roderick D. Mckenzie, neighborhoods
and inequality 43
Jeffrey Nathaniel Parker
5 Progressive values and institutional realities at The New
School for Social Research 56
Cherry Schrecker
6 Progressive economic thought in interwar Australia 70
Alex Millmow
7 Repeated disappearance: why was progressivism
forgotten in Japanese economics? 84
Hidetomi Tanaka
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PART II FIGHTING INCOME, CAPITAL AND LAND
INEQUALITIES
8 Income inequality: a turning point, 1880–1930 99
Christian Morrisson
9 Inequalities in the United Kingdom: the “Progressive”
Era, 1890s–1920s 114
Patricia Thane
10 Distribution as a macroeconomic problem 129
Robert Skidelsky
11 Land ownership as a mechanism for the reproduction of
inequality in Ecuador from 1895 to the 1920s 145
Francisca Granda
12 Peasants, inequality and progress in the research of
Alexander Chayanov: Russia and the world 158
Vladimir Babashkin and Alexander Nikulin
13 Broadacre City: Frank Lloyd Wright’s vision of an
organic capitalism 172
Catherine Maumi
14 The tariff question, the labor question, and Henry
George’s triangulation 191
Stephen Meardon
PART III FIGHTING SOCIAL INEQUALITIES
15 Schumpeter’s view of social inequalities 208
Odile Lakomski-Laguerre
16 W. E. B. Du Bois on poverty and racial inequality 224
Steven Pressman and Thomas Briggs
17 A reconsideration of James Africanus Beale Horton of
Sierra Leone (1835–1883) and his legacy 238
Odile Goerg
18 Sol Plaatje: an intellectual giant in the twentieth-century
history of black South Africa 254
Tidiane N’Diaye and Guillaume Vallet
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19 Stephen Leacock on political economy and the unsolved
riddle of social justice 264
Robert W. Dimand
20 Trailblazing feminists at the turn of the twentieth century:
a focus on Marianne Weber and Lou Andreas-Salomé 282
Christine Castelain-Meunier
21 Silvio Gesell’s vision on monetary reform: how to reduce
social inequalities 292
Florencia Sember
22 Football culture and sports history in Latin America:
from the Progressive Era to contemporary times 306
Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda
Index 321
Contributors
Vladimir Babashkin is Full Professor of History and Sociology at the Russian
Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
(RANEPA) in Moscow, Russia. In Russia, he is one of the leading academics
on the history of Russia. More specifically, as a specialist of the history of
Russian peasantry, he has published several articles and books on the topic. He
is also a member of the advisory board of Russian Peasant Studies.
Thomas Briggs is a PhD student of economics at Colorado State University,
United States. His fields of interest are political economy, health economics
and regional economics, with a focus on stratification. Thomas’ work has been
primarily the quantitative analysis of interdisciplinary studies.
Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda is Associate Professor at the School of
Social Sciences, and researcher at the Center for Research and Documentation
on Brazilian Contemporary History, at FGV Foundation (CPDOC/FGV). His
main topics of research are literary history and modernism; social thought
and intellectuals in Brazil; and the social history of football and organized
soccer supporting groups. He has published extensively on these topics, such
as O descobrimento do futebol: modernismo, regionalismo e paixão esportiva
(2004).
Christine Castelain-Meunier is a researcher in Sociology at the Centre
National de la Recherche scientifique (CNRS) at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes
en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France. She works on gender issues and is
an expert on masculinity. She has published many books and papers on the
issue of gender, especially on men (see, for instance, her best-seller in France:
Les métamorphoses du masculin (2005)), on fatherhood (see, for instance,
her recent book L’instinct paternel. Plaidoyer en faveur des nouveaux pères
(2019)). She campaigned successfully for paternity leave, introduced in 2001.
She has edited a number of books or special issues on those topics, in the inter-
national review Enfances, Familles, Générations in particular.
Virgile Chassagnon is Full Professor of Economics at the University of Grenoble
Alpes, France (research fellow at CREG Research Center). He is the director of
the Doctoral School of Economics. He is also the director of the Research Institute
for the Political Economy of the Firm (IREPE) and associated research fellow at
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TRIANGLE Research Center in Lyon. His research includes the study of the
nature, the boundaries and the governance of complex economic organizations
from a progressive and evolutionary institutional approach, where he develops
a theory of the firm as a power-based entity (also called TFEP). As a leading
expert in this field, he has published several books and over 50 research
articles, notably in established academic journals (Journal of Institutional
Economics, Journal of Economic Issues, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal
of the History of Economic Thought, Technological Forecasting and Social
Change, and History of Economic Ideas).
Robert W. Dimand is Full Professor of Economics at Brock University,
Canada. He has published more than one hundred articles in leading journals
such as the Journal of Economic Perspectives, History of Political Economy,
the Journal of the History of Economic Thought, the European Journal of the
History of Economic Thought and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.
He has published many books on the history of economic thought such as
James Tobin (2014), Irving Fisher (2019), The Elgar Companion to John
Maynard Keynes (edited with Harald Hagemann, 2019) and The Routledge
Handbook of the History of Women’s Economic Thought (edited with Kirsten
Madden, 2018).
Benjamin Dubrion is Associate Professor of Economics at Sciences Po
Lyon, France, and a member of the research laboratory Triangle (UMR CNRS
5206). He works in the fields of organizational economics and human resource
management. His latest topics of research are on “old institutionalism.” He
has published in several French academic journals on economics and human
resource management.
Odile Goerg is Full Professor Emerita of Modern African History at the
University of Paris-Paris Diderot, France. She is one of the leading French
experts in the studies of urban history in Africa. Her research deals with social
and cultural history in an urban context, especially through leisure (cinema).
In particular, she works on Sierra Leone and Guinea. She has published more
than 50 papers, chapters in books, or books on several issues dealing with
Africa. Her latest book is Tropical Dream Palaces: Cinema in Colonial West
Africa, published in 2019.
Stephany Griffith-Jones is Emeritus Professorial Fellow, Institute of
Development Studies, Sussex University, England. Stephany Griffith-Jones
has authored or edited 25 books, including Time for a Visible Hand: Lessons
from the 2008 World Financial Crisis (2010, co-edited with José Antonio
Ocampo and Joseph Stiglitz), and The Future of National Development Banks
(2018, co-edited with José Antonio Ocampo).
