Richard T. Ely the story of economics in the United States

This work publishes for the first time Richard T. Ely's study of the history of American economic thought. Ely was both a reformer of economics and a leading economist between the 1880's and 1930's. A founder of the American economic association, he himself wrote on a vast number of t...

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Other Authors Warren J. Samuels
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2002.
SeriesResearch in the history of economic thought and methodology ; v. 20, pt. 3.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849501095
ISSN0743-4154 ;
DOI10.1016/S0743-4154(2002)20_Part_3
Physical Description1 online resource (312 p.).

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Table of Contents:
  • Henry C. Carey : first American economist
  • The English classical school in the United States
  • Epigones
  • Economic thought in the south
  • The new life in American economics
  • Introductory
  • Francis A. Walker
  • Two philosophical economists : Simon N. Patten and John Bates Clark
  • Appendix I. On collateral things, not being the main subject of the discourse
  • Appendix II. Contemporary American economics
  • Early American economics in its European setting
  • American protests against English economics
  • The development of the scientific point of view in relation to the tariff.