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Richard Theodore Ely
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or RICHARD THEODORE ELY (1854-), American economist, was born at Ripley, New York, on the 13th of April 1854. Educated at Columbia and Heidelberg universities, he held the professorship of economics at Johns Hopkins University from 1881 to 1892, and was subsequently professor of economics at Wisconsin University. Professor Ely took an active part in the formation of the American Economic Association, was secretary from 1885 to 1892 and president from 1899 to 1901. He published a useful Introduction to Political Economy (1889); Outlines of Economics (1893); The Labour Movement in America (1883); Problems of To-day (1888); Social Aspects of Christianity (1889); Socialism and Social Reform (1894); Monopolies and Trusts (1900), and Studies in the Evolution of Industrial Society (1903).
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Richard Theodore Ely'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/r/richard-theodore-ely.html. 1910.
