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 |
Early life
editHe 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]
Career
editHe 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]
Works
editBooks
edit- (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
edit- 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]
Notes
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Moulton, H. G. (1920). "An Appraisal of Carver's Economics". Journal of Political Economy. 28 (4): 322–331. doi:10.1086/253263. ISSN 0022-3808.
- ^ 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). - ^ Elliott, Clark A.; Rossiter, Margaret W. (1992). Science at Harvard University: Historical Perspectives. Lehigh University Press. p. 199. ISBN 9780934223126.
- ^ a b Coats, A. W. (1987). "Carver, Thomas Nixon (1865–1961)". The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. pp. 1–2. doi:10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_567-1. ISBN 978-1-349-95121-5. OCLC 755272638.
- ^ Carver, T. N. (1893). "The Place of Abstinence in the Theory of Interest". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 8 (1): 40–61. doi:10.2307/1882876. hdl:2027/hvd.32044004792511. JSTOR 1882876.
- ^ Carver, T. N. (1903). "The Relation of Abstinence to Interest". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 18 (1): 142–145. doi:10.2307/1882781. JSTOR 1882781.
- ^ Thomas Nixon Carver, 1911. Principles of Rural Economics. Chapter links, pp. vii–x.
- ^ Carver, T. N. (1897). "The Value of the Money Unit". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 11 (4): 429–435. doi:10.2307/1880718. JSTOR 1880718. ProQuest 127816360.
- ^ Carver, T. N. (1903). "A Suggestion for a Theory of Industrial Depressions". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 17 (3): 497–500. doi:10.2307/1882323. hdl:2027/hvd.hnttc5. JSTOR 1882323.
- ^ Thomas Nixon Carver, 1904. The Distribution of Wealth. Chapter links.
- ^ Carver, Thomas N. (1908). "The Economic Basis of the Problem of Evil". The Harvard Theological Review. 1 (1): 97–111. doi:10.1017/S0017816000006544. JSTOR 1507533. 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.
- ^ Carver, Thomas Nixon (1960). "A Conservative's Ideas on Economic Reform". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 74 (4): 536–542. doi:10.2307/1884350. JSTOR 1884350.
- ^ 1915. Essays in Social Justice. Chapter links.
- ^ Carver, T. N. (1918). "The Behavioristic Man". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 33 (1): 195–201. doi:10.2307/1885016. JSTOR 1885016.
- ^ Thomas Nixon Carver, 1935. The Essential Factors of Social Evolution. Chapter links, pp. ix–xi.
- ^ Carver, Thomas N. (1917). "The National Point of View in Economics: Annual Address of the President". The American Economic Review. 7 (1): 3–17. JSTOR 1814767.
- ^ Carver, T. N. (1908). "Agricultural Economics. Round Table Discussion: T. N. Carver, Chairman". American Economic Association Quarterly. 9 (1): 59–82. JSTOR 2999987.
External links
edit- "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 the Internet Archive
- Works by Thomas Nixon Carver, at JSTOR
- Works by Thomas Nixon Carver, at Hathi Trust