Simon Patten's Contributions to the Institutionalist View of Abundance

LaJeunesse, Robert M.

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“…Why then, Patten (1907, p. 47) asked, do poverty and social unrest-"which ought to be disappearing from a rich and lavish world"-continue to exist and proliferate? His response was an early version of the cultural lag theory popularized by William F. Ogburn in the 1920s (Fox 1967;LaJeunesse 2010). In Patten's opinion, the frictions that prevented a full transition towards a pleasure economy were inherently social, rather than economic.…”

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On Simon Nelson Patten’s Progressivism: A Note

Fiorito¹,

Vatiero

2021

J Hist Econ Thought

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This article is an attempt to offer an assessment of the main coordinates of Simon Nelson Patten’s views on democracy and biological determinism. This will allow us to better delineate the differences—as well as the affinities—between Patten and the core of progressives discussed by Thomas C. Leonard in a series of path-breaking contributions, culminating in his Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era. It is our contention that even within the persisting intricacies, ambiguities, and contradictions of Patten’s expository style, it is possible to trace a shift in some aspects of his ideas—a gradual evolution that makes his peculiar brand of progressivism different from that of his most “illiberal” counterparts.

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confidence: 99%