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 ofthe discourse -- Appendix II. ContemporaryAmerican economics -- EarlyAmerican economics in its European setting -- American protests against English economics -- The development of the scientific point of view in relation to the tariff
This work publishes for the first time Richard T. Ely's study of thehistory of American economic thought. Ely was both a reformer of economics and a leading economist between the 1880's and 1930's. A founder ofthe American economic association, he himself wrote on a vast number of topics. This history of American economics tells a story that is bothstraightforward and his own interpretation
