Henry Carter Adams

Henry Carter Adams ( born December 31, 1851 in Davenport, Iowa; † August 11, 1921 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) was an American financial and economic scientist who mainly through his book A Study of the Principles did Should Control the Interference of the Public debts was known about the national debt.

Life

After school he studied at Grinnell College, which he finished in 1874, and then enrolled at the Theological Seminary in Newton (Massachusetts ) a. This, however, he left a short time later and studied political economy at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where he was a 1878 Philosophiae Doctor ( Ph.D. Political Economy ) acquired.

In 1880, he began his career as a high school teacher and was initially Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, where he taught until 1881. At the same time he was also a lecturer in 1880 at Cornell University, where he worked until 1887.

In 1887, he finally accepted the offer of a professorship of political economy at the University of Michigan and taught there until his death.

Publications

In addition to his many years of teaching, Adams also wrote several reference books on business topics. His best-known books include:

• Outline of Lectures upon Political Economy (1886 )
• A Study of the Principles did Should Control the Interference of the Public Debts (1887 )
• Relation of the State to Industrial Action (1897 )
• The Science of Finance ( 1898)
• American Railway Accounting (1918 )