Thomas Nixon Carver

American economics professor (1865–1961)

Thomas Nixon Carver
Thomas Nixon Carver, 1935
Born(1865-03-25)25 March 1865
Kirkville, Iowa
Died8 March 1961(1961-03-08) (aged 95)
Santa Monica, California
NationalityAmerican
Academic career
InstitutionOberlin College
Harvard University
School or
tradition		Neoclassical economics
Alma materCornell University
Doctoral
advisor		Walter Francis Willcox
Doctoral
students		Albert B. Wolfe

Thomas Nixon Carver (25 March 1865 – 8 March 1961) was an American economics professor.[1]

Early life

He grew up on a farm, the son of Quaker parents.[2] 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.[3]

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.[4]

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.[5][6] He made pioneering contributions to agricultural and rural economics and in rural sociology.[4][7] He wrote on such diverse topics as monetary economics,[8] macroeconomics,[9] the distribution of wealth,[10] the problem of evil,[11] uses of religion,[12] political science,[13] political economy,[14][15] social justice,[16] behavioral economics,[17] social evolution,[18] and the economics of national survival.[19]

Works

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.[20]

Notes

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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).
  3. ^ Elliott, Clark A.; Rossiter, Margaret W. (1992). Science at Harvard University: Historical Perspectives. Lehigh University Press. p. 199. ISBN 9780934223126.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Thomas Nixon Carver, 1911. Principles of Rural Economics. Chapter links, pp. vii–x.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ Thomas Nixon Carver, 1904. The Distribution of Wealth. Chapter links.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ 1912. The Religion Worth Having. Chapter links.
  13. ^ 1914. "Political Science, I. General Introduction" in William Allan Neilson, ed., Lectures on the Harvard Classics, v. 51 of 51, pp. 328–346.
  14. ^ • 1919. Principles of Political Economy. Chapter links, pp. vii–ix.
  15. ^ 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.
  16. ^ 1915. Essays in Social Justice. Chapter links.
  17. ^ Carver, T. N. (1918). "The Behavioristic Man". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 33 (1): 195–201. doi:10.2307/1885016. JSTOR 1885016.
  18. ^ Thomas Nixon Carver, 1935. The Essential Factors of Social Evolution. Chapter links, pp. ix–xi.
  19. ^ 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.
  20. ^ 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

  • "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 Internet Archive
  • Works by Thomas Nixon Carver, at JSTOR
  • Works by Thomas Nixon Carver, at Hathi Trust
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