Thomas Nixon Carver
Thomas Nixon Carver | |
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 Thomas Nixon Carver, 1935 | |
| Born | 25 March 1865 |
| Died | 8 March 1961 (aged 95) |
| Nationality | American |
| Academic career | |
| Institution | Oberlin College Harvard University |
| School or tradition | Neoclassical economics |
| Alma mater | Cornell University |
| Doctoral advisor | Walter Francis Willcox |
| Doctoral students | Albert B. Wolfe |
Thomas Nixon Carver (25 March 1865 – 8 March 1961) was an American economics professor.[1]
Early life
He grew up on a farm, the son of
Career
He held a joint appointment in economics and sociology at Oberlin College until 1902, when he accepted a position as professor of political economy at Harvard University (1902–1935). For a time, there he taught the only course in sociology. He was the secretary-treasurer of the American Economic Association (1909–1913) and was elected its president in 1916.[4]
Carver's principal achievement in economic theory was to extend Clark's theory of marginalism to determination of interest from saving ('abstinence') and productivity of capital.[5][6] He made pioneering contributions to agricultural and rural economics and in rural sociology.[4][7] He wrote on such diverse topics as monetary economics,[8] macroeconomics,[9] the distribution of wealth,[10] the problem of evil,[11] uses of religion,[12] political science,[13] political economy,[14][15] social justice,[16] behavioral economics,[17] social evolution,[18] and the economics of national survival.[19]
Works
Books
- (1893). The Place of Abstinence in the Theory of Interest.
- (1894). The Theory of Wages Adjusted to Recent Theories of Value.
- (1904). Distribution of Wealth. New York: Macmillan. 1924. Retrieved 16 December 2023 – via Internet Archive.
- (1905). Sociology and Social Progress.
- (1910). Rural Economy as a Factor in the Success of the Church.
- (1911). Principles of Rural Economics.
- (1911). The Religion Worth Having.
- (1915). Essays in Social Justice.
- (1916). Selected Readings in Rural Economics.
- (1916). Selected Writings in Rural Economics.
- (1917). The Foundations of National Prosperity.
- (1918). Agricultural Economics.
- (1919). Government Control of the Liquor Business in Great Britain and the United States.
- (1919). Principles of Political Economy.
- (1919). War Thrift.
- (1920). Elementary Economics [with Maude Carmichael].
- (1921). Principles of National Economy.
- (1923). Human Relations: An Introduction to Sociology [with Henry Bass Hall].
- (1924). The Economy of Human Energy.
- (1925). The Present Economic Revolution in the United States.
- (1927). Principles of Rural Sociology [with Gustav A. Lundquist].
- (1928). Economic World and How It May Be Improved [with Hugh W. Lester].
- (1932). Our Economic Life.
- (1935). The Essential Factors of Social Evolution.
- Carver, Thomas Nixon; OCLC 19422000– via HathiTrust.
- (1949). Recollections of an Unplanned Life.
Sole author journal articles
- Carver, T. N. (1895). "The Ethical Basis of Distribution and Its Bearings on Taxation". Publications of the American Economic Association. 10 (3): 96–101. JSTOR 2485647.
- Carver, T. N. (1902). "The Economic Interpretation of History". Journal of Political Economy. 11 (1): 93–98. S2CID 154762716.
- Carver, T. N. (1905). "The Marginal Theory of Distribution". Journal of Political Economy. 13 (2): 257–266. S2CID 154729329.
- Carver, T. N. (1913). "Review of Economic Beginnings of the Far West. How We Won the Land Beyond the Mississippi". The American Economic Review. 3 (2): 353–355. JSTOR 1827962.
- Carver, T. N. (1914). "The Work of Rural Organization". Journal of Political Economy. 22 (9): 821–844. S2CID 154752048.
Carver also co-wrote a number of journal articles, presided over conference presentations, and published in conference proceedings.[20]
Notes
- ^ Blaug, Mark, ed. (1986). "CARVER, Thomas Nixon". Who's Who in Economics: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Economists 1700-1986 (2nd ed.). Wheatsheaf Books Limited. p. 149 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Thomas Nixon Carver, 1949. Recollections of an Unplanned Life. "Excerpt". Archived from the original on 27 October 2009. Retrieved 26 September 2013.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link). - ISBN 9780934223126.
- ^ OCLC 755272638.
- JSTOR 1882876.
- JSTOR 1882781.
- ^ Thomas Nixon Carver, 1911. Principles of Rural Economics. Chapter links, pp. vii–x.
- ProQuest 127816360.
- JSTOR 1882323.
- ^ Thomas Nixon Carver, 1904. The Distribution of Wealth. Chapter links.
- S2CID 170136407.
- ^ 1912. The Religion Worth Having. Chapter links.
- ^ 1914. "Political Science, I. General Introduction" in William Allan Neilson, ed., Lectures on the Harvard Classics, v. 51 of 51, pp. 328–346.
- ^ • 1919. Principles of Political Economy. Chapter links, pp. vii–ix.
- JSTOR 1884350.
- ^ 1915. Essays in Social Justice. Chapter links.
- JSTOR 1885016.
- ^ Thomas Nixon Carver, 1935. The Essential Factors of Social Evolution. Chapter links, pp. ix–xi.
- JSTOR 1814767.
- JSTOR 2999987.
External links
- "THOMAS CARVER, TEACHER AND AUTHOR: Former Professor of Political Economy at Harvard Dies - On G.O.P. 'Brain Trust'". The New York Times: 33. 8 March 1961.
- Works by or about Thomas Nixon Carver at Internet Archive
- Works by Thomas Nixon Carver, at JSTOR
- Works by Thomas Nixon Carver, at Hathi Trust
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