Henry Carter Adams

Henry Carter Adams

Henry Carter Adams (born December 31, 1851 in Davenport , Iowa , † August 11, 1921 in Ann Arbor , Michigan ) was an American financial and economist who was mainly known through his book A Study of the Principles that Should Control the Interference of the Public Debts over the National Debt became known.

Life

After attending school, he first studied at Grinnell College, which he finished in 1874, and then enrolled at the theological seminary in Newton, Massachusetts . However, he left this a short time later and studied political economy at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore , where he earned a Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D. Political Economy) in 1878 .

In 1880 he began his professional career as a university lecturer and was initially a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, where he taught until 1881. At the same time he was also a lecturer at Cornell University in 1880 and worked there until 1887.

In 1887 he finally accepted a professorship in political economy at the University of Michigan and taught there until his death in 1921.

From 1896 to 1897, Adams served as the fourth president of the American Economic Association .

Publications

In addition to his many years of teaching activity, Adams also wrote several specialist books on economic topics. His most famous books include:

• Outline of Lectures upon Political Economy (1886)
• A Study of the Principles that Should Control the Interference of the Public Debts (1887)
• Relation of the State to Industrial Action (1897)
• The Science of Finance (1898)
• American Railway Accounting (1918)

Web links

• Henry Carter Adams in nndb (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Past and Present Officers. aeaweb.org ( American Economic Association ), accessed October 31, 2015 .