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Eugenics and American Economics in the Interwar Years: The Case of Thomas Nixon Carver
2017
The aim of this paper is to explore in some detail Carver’s eugenic ideas with a main, albeit non-exclusive, focus on the interwar years. Although his major contributions had all appeared prior to 1918, Carver remained particularly productive throughout the 1920s and 1930s, publishing several articles and eight books, which include The Principles of National Economy (1921), and The Essential Factors of Social Evolution (1935)—two works which contain significant traces of eugenic reasoning. Just as important, Carver’s interwar activities were not limited to academia. After his retirement from Harvard in 1932 he became involved in the activities of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, while i…
Survival Value and a Robust, Practical, Joyless Individualism: Thomas Nixon Carver, Social Justice, and Eugenics
2017
The aim of this paper is to provide a compressive assessment of Thomas Nixon Carver's thought—from his early formative years in the 1880s to his post WWII career as a journalist and pamphleteer. The main (albeit not exclusive) focus of this paper will be on the theoretical and philosophical coordinates of Carver's “new liberalism”—his own definition—and how this broad vision was intrinsically connected with an explicitly hierarchical and eugenic approach to human nature. Just as important, what follows is also an attempt to increase our general understanding of the extent in which eugenic considerations permeated the realm of political economy during the first decades of the last century an…
"All Tito wants is a little bit of unity" : kuva Titon Jugoslaviasta The New York Timesissa vuosina 1969- 1971
2012
Irtauduttuaan Neuvostoliiton johtamasta Itä-Euroopan kommunistimaiden liittoumasta 1940- luvun lopulla Titon johtama Jugoslavia kehittyi kylmän sodan aikana omaa tietään kulkevaksi sosialistiseksi valtioksi, joka oli ulkopolitiikassaan sitoutumaton etsien samalla paikkaansa idän ja lännen välissä, jonka talousjärjestelmä perustui ns. työläisten itsehallintojärjestelmään ja jonka sisäpoliittista kehitystä sävyttivät toisaalta erilaiset pyrkimykset reformeihin sekä toisaalta kysymykset siitä, miten Jugoslavian eri osatasavaltojen keskinäinen suhde kehittyisi ja vaikuttaisi näin koko maan tulevaisuuteen. 1960–1970-lukujen vaihteessa maassa elettiin sisäpoliittisesti epävakaata kautta, johon li…