Wednesday, February 10, 2010

"Breed out the unfit and breed in the fit": Irving Fisher and the Skull and Bones Mindset


Annie L. Cot has a scholarly journal article in the American Journal of Economics and Sociology. It deals with Yale economist Irving Fisher who was the most influential economist before 1950. Fisher felt individuals should have little freedom:
"There is every reason to believe that human beings are as amenable to cultivation as other animals or plants,"