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

• Other Authors: Warren J. Samuels
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2002.
• Series: Research in the history of economic thought and methodology ; v. 20, pt. 3.
• Subjects: Business & Economics > Economics > General.; Economic theory & philosophy.; Social & cultural history.; Economics > 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...

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.