{{short description|American economist}} {{BLP one source|date=March 2025}} '''Thomas C. Leonard''' is an American historian of economics and scholarly authority on American economic life during the late 19th and early 20th centuries at [[Princeton University|Princeton]].<ref name="MyUser_Scholar.princeton.edu_April_11_2016c">{{cite web |url=http://scholar.princeton.edu/tleonard/research |title=Research |newspaper=Scholar.princeton.edu |date= |author= |accessdate= April 11, 2016}}</ref>
He is perhaps best known for his book ''[[Illiberal Reformers|Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics and American Economics in the Progressive Era]]''. In 2017, the History of Economics Society awarded ''Illiberal Reformers'' the [https://humanities.princeton.edu/2017/07/05/thomas-leonard-awarded-2017-joseph-j-spengler-prize/ Joseph J. Spengler Prize for book of the year].
==Selected publications== * Leonard, T. C. (2005). Retrospectives: Eugenics and economics in the progressive era. ''Journal of Economic Perspectives'', 19(4), 207–224. * Leonard, T. C. (2016). ''Illiberal reformers''. Princeton University Press. * Klamer A, Leonard TC (1994) So what's an economic metaphor? In: Mirowski P (ed) ''Natural images in economic thought: markets read in tooth and claw'', pp 20–51. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge New York * Leonard, T. C. (2000). The very idea of applying economics: The modern minimum-wage controversy and its antecedents. ''History of Political Economy'', 32(Suppl_1), 117–144.
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