Richard T. Ely
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'''Richard Theodore Ely, Ph. D., LL.D.''' ([[April 13]], [[1854]] – [[October 4]], [[1943]]) was an American [[economist]].
Ely was born in [[Ripley, New York|Ripley]], [[New York]]. He was born as the eldest of three children of Ezra Sterling and Harriet Gardner (Mason) Ely. Ely received his undergraduate degree from [[Columbia University|Columbia]], later receiving his doctorate in economics from the [[University of Heidelberg]], where he studied under [[Karl Knies]]. He held the professorship of economics at [[Johns Hopkins University]] from 1881 to 1892, and was subsequently professor of economics at the [[University of Wisconsin-Madison]]. In [[1894]] an unsuccessful attempt was made to depose him from his [[chair (official)|chair]] at Wisconsin for teaching [[Socialism|socialistic]] doctrines: an effort met by the state [[Board of Regents]] with a ringing proclamation of the necessity for freely "sifting and winnowing" among claims of truth [http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/WIReader/WER1035-Chpt1.html]. Professor Ely took an active part in the formation of the [[American Economic Association]], was secretary from 1885 to 1892 and president from 1899 to 1901. He also edited ''Macmillan's Citizen's Library of Economics, Politics, and Sociology''. Throughout his teaching career he was a frequent contributor to periodical literature, both scientific and popular. He died in [[Old Lyme]], [[Connecticut]]
== Works ==
* ''French and German Socialism'' (1883)
* ''Labor Movement in America'' (1886)
* ''Taxation in American States and Cities'' (1888)
* ''Introduction to Political Economy'' (1889)
* ''Outlines of Economics'' (1893)
* ''The Labor Movement in America'' (1883)
* ''Problems of To-day'' (1888)
* ''Social Aspects of Christianity'' (1889)
* ''Socialism and Social Reform'' (1894)
* ''Monopolies and Trusts'' (1900; new edition, 1912)
* ''The Coming City'' (1902)
* ''Studies in the Evolution of Industrial Society'' (1903; new edition, 1913)
* ''Property and Contract in their Relation to the Distribution of Wealth'' (1914)
In collaboration with Prof. G. R. Wicker he wrote ''Elementary Principles of Economics'' (1907); and in collaboration with [[Thomas Sewall Adams|T. S. Adams]], M. O. Lorenz, and A. A. Young, ''Outlines of Economics'' (1908; several subsequent editions).
==References==
*Fine, Sidney. "Richard T. Ely, Forerunner of Progressivism, 1880-1901." ''The Mississippi Valley Historical Review.'' 37:4 (March 1951).
*Rader, Benjamin G. "Richard T. Ely: Lay Spokesman for the Social Gospel." ''Journal of American History.'' 53:1 (June 1966).
==External links==
*[http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.AAALSept1918 Private colonization of land (1918)], Ely, Richard Theodore, 1854-1943. Present by the [http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/ University of Wisconsin-Madison Digital Collections Center].
* [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/ely.htm Profile at History of Economic Thought website]
* [http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/wireader/WER0663.html Profile at University of Wisconsin-Madison website]
* [http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~whansen/sift_win.html Academic Freedom on Trial: on Ely's 1894 trial]
* [http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/WIReader/WER0751.html Extract from The Social Law of Service]
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