Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Abbreviations for Notes -- Introduction -- Notes -- Part I. Predecessors 1880-1910 -- 1. Origins of American Rational Reform -- Ward, Veblen, and the Science of Society -- Engineering Professionalization -- Social Science Professionalization -- Notes -- Part II. Definitions 1911-1918 -- 2. Engineers and Efficiency -- Engineers and Society -- Efficiency: Variations on a Theme -- Notes -- 3. Structuring a New Republic -- The New Republic Intellectuals -- Social Science and its Applications -- Notes -- Part III. Implementation and Redefinition 1918-1934 -- 4. War and Reconstruction -- World War Mobilization -- Aftermath and Reconstruction -- Notes -- 5. The Great Engineer -- Notes -- 6. Scientific Philanthropy, Philanthropic Science -- Notes -- 7. Social Engineering Projects: The 1920s -- The Hanover Conferences -- The Encyclopedia of the Social Science -- Recent Social Trends -- Notes -- 8. Roads not Taken -- A Century of Progress, 1933 -- Mary Van Kleeck -- Engineers and Taylorites -- Notes -- 9. Social Engineering in the Depression, I: Outside the New Deal -- Assorted Technocratic Impulses -- Beard and Dewey -- Notes -- 10. Social Engineering in the Depression, II: Inside the New Deal -- The National Resources Planning Board -- Arthur Morgan and the TVA -- Rexford Tugwell -- Notes -- Part IV. Reconsideration and Retreat 1934-1939 -- 11. Reconsiderations -- Lewis Mumford and Technics and Civilization -- Walter Lippmann and The Good Society -- American Social Science after 1935 -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Notes -- Index -- A-C -- D-F -- G-L -- M-P -- R-T -- U-Y.