James MacKaye

James Medbury MacKaye ( born April 8, 1872 in New York City; † January 22, 1935 in Boston ) was an American engineer and philosopher.

MacKaye was in New York City, the son of actor Steele MacKaye and Mary ( Medbery ) MacKaye to the world. His brothers were the playwright and poet Percy MacKaye and the environmentalists Benton MacKaye. He went to Lawrence Academy in Groton, Massachusetts. After Packard Business College in New York, he completed his studies in 1895 with a Bachelor of Science from Harvard University. MacKaye then worked as a patent attorney at the Census Bureau in Washington, and was built in 1891 by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler secretary in the geological faculty of Harvard. In 1899 he joined the research department of Stone & Webster in Boston. In his nearly thirty-year career there, he published several philosophical embossed books.

In addition to an economy of happiness, he tried his hand at an alternative to the theory of relativity by Albert Einstein. Both works are now largely forgotten, but found alive MacKayes great interest.

In 1931 he was appointed late on a lectureship at Rollins College and 1932 as a professor at Dartmouth College. 1935 died MacKaye after a short illness in Boston.

Bibliography

• The Economy of Happiness. Little, Brown, and Co., Boston, 1906.
• The Mechanics of Socialism. Fabian Club, Boston 1915.
• Americanized Socialism; A Yankee View of Capitalism. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1918.
• The Science of Usefulness. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1920.
• The Logic of Conduct. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1924.
• Thoreau: Philosopher of Freedom. Vanguard Press, New York 1930
• The Dynamic Universe. C. Scribner's Sons, New York 1931
• The Logic of Language. Dartmouth College Publications, Hanover, N.H., 1939.