
Chicago-born Simon Nelson Patten studied at Northwestern before traveling to Germany and getting his doctorate at the University of Halle. From 1885, he held a chair at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. A polemical economist and social philosopher, Patten was the closest to the Henry Carey tradition in advocating protectionism (1890). His most famous book (1896), Patten argued that economic structures were evolving from "pain economies" to "pleasure economies" along lines similar, but distinct, from Spencer and Sumner. Very influenced by the Progressive movement, his 1907 book called for the introduction of an income tax in the United States. He was also a stringent advocate of prohibition and flirted with eugenics.
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