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The academic mind and reform : the influence of Richard T. Ely in American life / Benjamin G. Rader.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: [Lexington] : University of Kentucky Press, (c)1966.Description: 1 online resource (288 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813163994
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HB119 .A233 1966
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Subject: For over two generations economist Richard T. Ely popularized a wide spectrum of significant liberal social principles and mirrored many of the dilemmas, frustrations, and successes of the academician as a reformer. He was the originator of many ideas that agitated American reform circles in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and unlike most professors of his time, he frequently engaged in the public controversies that raged around the crucial social issues of the day. Through the use of Ely's vast published writings and his large collection of personal papers, Benjamin G. Rader.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Preface; Contents; ONE Finding His Mission; TWO His Message: The New Economics; THREE His Message: Class Warfare; FOUR ""The Golden Mean""; FIVE New Vistas in the West; SIX Retreat from Reform; SEVEN A Barometer of Wisconsin Progressivism; EIGHT ""Under All, the Land""; NINE His Final Years; Appendix: The Works of Richard T. Ely; Bibliographical Note; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.

For over two generations economist Richard T. Ely popularized a wide spectrum of significant liberal social principles and mirrored many of the dilemmas, frustrations, and successes of the academician as a reformer. He was the originator of many ideas that agitated American reform circles in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and unlike most professors of his time, he frequently engaged in the public controversies that raged around the crucial social issues of the day. Through the use of Ely's vast published writings and his large collection of personal papers, Benjamin G. Rader.

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