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Article: "Breed out the unfit and breed in the fit": Irving Fisher, economics, and the science of heredity.

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There is now no reasonable excuse for refusing to face the fact that nothing but a eugenic religion can save our civilization from the fate that has overtaken all previous civilizations.

--George Bernard Shaw

Not only is it in the end more economical to attempt an effort to breed out the disabilities of the human race, but it means a more permanent realization and the elevation of humanity to a higher plane.

--Irving Fisher (1915e: 175)

A particle in Mechanics corresponds to an individual in Economics. Space in Mechanics corresponds to Commodity in Economics. Force in Mechanics corresponds to marginal utility or disutility in Economics. ...

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