Richard T. Ely was one of the most important architects of the administrative welfare state in the United States. His astonishingly influential career was the product of a fundamental re-thinking of the origin and nature of the state. Repudiating the social compact theory of the American founding in favor of a self-consciously “new,” “German,” and frankly “social” conception of the state ordered toward the realization of a collective vision of human perfection, Ely conceived the task of social reform as extending social control over the hereditary and environmental determinants of human character. In the early 1930s, Ely’s vision of social reform would inspire some of his boldest students, especially M. L. Wilson, to formulate a sweeping vision of social planning that would not only inform his little known and rather coyly named Division of Subsistence Homesteads, but also his efforts at the National Resources Board (NRB)—the nation’s first ever agency for comprehensive national planning.

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RICHARD T. ELY，德国历史经济学院，以及新政规划者的“社会-目的论”愿望

Richard T. Ely 是美国行政福利国家最重要的建筑师之一。他影响力惊人的职业生涯是对国家起源和性质进行根本性重新思考的产物。拒绝美国建国时的社会契约理论，支持自觉的“新”、“德国”和坦率的“社会”国家概念，以实现人类完美的集体愿景，Ely 设想了以下任务：社会改革扩大了对人类性格的遗传和环境决定因素的社会控制。在 1930 年代初期，伊利的社会改革愿景将激励他的一些最大胆的学生，尤其是 ML Wilson，