Thomas Nixon Carver

Thomas Nixon Carver

Thomas Nixon Carver, by J.E. Purdy
Born (1865-03-25)March 25, 1865
Died March 8, 1961(1961-03-08) (aged 95)
Nationality American
Institution Oberlin College
Harvard University
School or
tradition
Neoclassical economics

Thomas Nixon Carver (25 March 1865, Kirkville, Iowa – 8 March 1961, Santa Monica, California) was an American economics professor.

Early life

He grew up on a farm, the son of Quaker parents.[1] 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 Ph.D. degree at Cornell University in 1894.

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.[2]

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.[3] He made pioneering contributions to agricultural and rural economics and in rural sociology.[2][4] He wrote on such diverse topics as monetary economics,[5] macroeconomics,[6] the distribution of wealth,[7] the problem of evil,[8] uses of religion,[9] political science,[10] political economy,[11] social justice,[12] behavioral economics,[13] social evolution,[14] and the economics of national survival.[15]

Works

Notes

  1. Thomas Nixon Carver, 1949. Recollections of an Unplanned Life. Excerpt at the Wayback Machine (archived 27 October 2009).
  2. 1 2 A.W. Coats, 1987. "Carver, Thomas Nixon," The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, v. 1, pp. 374–75.
  3. T.N. Carver, 1893. "The Place of Abstinence in the Theory of Interest," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 8(1), pp. 40–61.
       _____, 1903. "The Relation of Abstinence to Interest," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 18(1), p p. 142–145.
  4. Thomas Nixon Carver, 1911. Principles of Rural Economics. Chapter links, pp. vii–x.
  5. T. N. Carver, 1897. "The Value of the Money Unit," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 11(4), pp. 429–435.
  6. • 1903. "A Suggestion for a Theory of Industrial Depressions," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 17(3), pp. 497–500. Reprinted in Carver, 1919, Principles of Political Economy, pp. 335–37.
       1921. Principles of National Economy, Chapter links, v–vi.
  7. Thomas Nixon Carver, 1904. The Distribution of Wealth. Chapter links.
  8. 1908. "The Economic Basis of the Problem of Evil," Harvard Theological Review, 1(1), pp. 97111.
  9. 1912. The Religion Worth Having. Chapter links.
  10. 1914. "Political Science, I. General Introduction" in William Allan Neilson, ed., Lectures on the Harvard Classics, v. 51 of 51, pp. 328–346.
  11. • 1919. Principles of Political Economy. Chapter links, pp. viiix.
       1960. "A Conservative's Ideas on Economic Reform," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 74(4), pp. 536–542.
  12. 1915. Essays in Social Justice. Chapter links.
  13. T.N. Carver, 1918. "The Behavioristic Man," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 33(1), pp. 195–201.
  14. Thomas Nixon Carver, 1935. The Essential Factors of Social Evolution. Chapter links, pp. ix–xi.
  15. 1917. "The National Point of View in Economics," American Economic Review, 7(1, Supplement), pp. 3–17. Presidential address, American Economic Association.
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