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the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Henry Carter Adams
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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HENRY CARTER ADAMS (1852-), American economist, was born at Davenport, Iowa, on the 31st of December 1852. He was educated at Iowa College and Johns Hopkins University, of which latter he was fellow and lecturer (1880-1882). He was afterwards a lecturer in Cornell University, and in 1887 became professor of political economy and finance in the university of Michigan. He also became statistician to the Interstate Commerce Committee and was in charge of the transportation department in the 1900 census. His principal works are 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).
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Henry Carter Adams'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​h/henry-carter-adams.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Henry Carter Adams'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​h/henry-carter-adams.html. 1910.