• The progressive economists belonged to a broad group of American intellectuals and activists who promoted the idea of using a powerful, centralized state, led by a vanguard of expert social scientists, to reform markets and society in the name of advancing a social welfarist vision of the nation’s good.
– Early on: “Christian Commonwealth”
• Their ends were plural, but the progressives were broadly agreed on the best means to those ends – social control, or, reform through “organization, the application of scientific expertise, and the value of efficiency and rationality.”
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