Henry Carter Adams

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Henry Carter Adams
Born December 31, 1851
Davenport, Iowa
Died August 11, 1921
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Nationality United States
Occupation economist
Known for Studies about economics, especially public debts

Henry Carter Adams (December 31, 1851 - August 11, 1921) was an U.S. economist.

Adams was born in Davenport, Iowa to Elizabeth Douglass and Ephraim Adams, a missionary of the "Iowa Band" from New England.

He gradudated from Iowa College, which was co-founded by his father [1]. He went to Andover Theological School, then studied in Heidelberg and Berlin for two years, before he went to Johns Hopkins University, where he made Ph.D. in 1878 and became a lecturer from 1880 to 1882. He was afterwards a lecturer in Cornell University. He also became statistician to the Interstate Commerce Committee and was in charge of the transportation department in the 1900 census.

In 1887, he became professor of political economy and finance at the University of Michigan, and taught there from 1886 to 1921. There, he also worked with John Dewey.

Adams died in 1921 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

[edit] Works

  • The State in Relation to Industrial Action (1887)
  • Taxation in the United States, 1787 to 1816 (1884)
  • Public Debts (1887)
  • The Science of Finance (1888)
  • Economics and Jurisprudence (1897)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Eisenach, Eldon J.. The Social and Political Thought of American Progressivism. Retrieved on 2008-06-07.
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NAME Adams, Henry Carter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION U.S. economist
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Davenport, Iowa
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1921
PLACE OF DEATH Ann Arbor, Michigan