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Thomas Nixon Carver (25 March 1865 – 8 March 1961) was an American economics professor.[1][2]
Thomas Nixon Carver | |
|---|---|
 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 |
He grew up on a farm, the son of Quaker parents.[3] He received an undergraduate education at Iowa Wesleyan College and the University of Southern California. After studying under John Bates Clark and Richard T. Ely at Johns Hopkins University, he received a PhD degree at Cornell University under Walter Francis Willcox in 1894.[4]
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.[5]
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.[6][7] He made pioneering contributions to agricultural and rural economics and in rural sociology.[5][8] He wrote on such diverse topics as monetary economics,[9] macroeconomics,[10] the distribution of wealth,[11] the problem of evil,[12] uses of religion,[13] political science,[14] political economy,[15][16] social justice,[17] behavioral economics,[18] social evolution,[19] and the economics of national survival.[20]
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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; Woolman, Mary Schenck; McGowan, Ellen Beers (1935). Textile Problems for the Consumer. New York: Macmillan. 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. doi:10.1086/250899. JSTOR 1822622. S2CID 154762716.
- Carver, T. N. (1905). "The Marginal Theory of Distribution". Journal of Political Economy. 13 (2): 257–266. doi:10.1086/251130. JSTOR 1817546. 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. doi:10.1086/252536. JSTOR 1817809. S2CID 154752048.
Carver also co-wrote a number of journal articles, presided over conference presentations, and published in conference proceedings.[21]
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