Deja Vu: Technocrats Called for Dictatorship and Technocracy In 1932

Deja Vu: Technocrats Called for Dictatorship and Technocracy In 1932

In my tattered copy of Henry A. Porter’s Roosevelt and Technocracy (1932), an early reader drew a careful bracket around a single passage on page 72. It reads: “Radical and immediate changes in both our political and economic systems will be necessary. This can best be accomplished by vesting supreme and emergency power in some...