Occupation Economist | Name Henry Adams | |
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Known for Studies about economics, especially public debts Education Johns Hopkins University, Grinnell College, Heidelberg University, Andover Newton Theological School Books Public Debts: An Essay in t, Public Debts; an Essay in t, Taxation in the United States 17, The science of finance, Relation of the State to Industrial | ||
Henry Carter Adams (December 31, 1851 – August 11, 1921) was a U.S. economist and Professor of Political Economy and finance at the University of Michigan.
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Biography
Adams was born in Davenport, Iowa to Elizabeth Douglass and Ephraim Adams, a missionary of the "Iowa Band" from New England. He graduated from Iowa College, now called Grinnell College, which was co-founded by his father. He went to Andover Theological School, then studied in Heidelberg and Berlin for two years, before he went to Johns Hopkins University, where he made Ph.D. in 1878.
Adams became a lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University from 1880 to 1882. He was afterwards a lecturer in Cornell University. He also became statistician to the Interstate Commerce Committee and was in charge of the transportation department in the 1900 census. In 1887, he became professor of political economy and finance at the University of Michigan, and taught there from 1886 to 1921. There, he also worked with John Dewey.
Adams died in 1921 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.