Christopher K. Ryan

Harry Gunnison Brown

An Orthodox Economist and his Contributions

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Harry Gunnison Brown was born in 1880 and died in 1975. He was part of a important group of American economists that included Herbert J. Davenport, E.R.A. Seligman, J. B. Clark, Alvin S. Johnson, Frank A. Fetter, Richard T. Ely and Frank Knight. In some ways Brown represented an orthodoxy in economics that was slipping away as neoclassical economics assumed a particular shape. For example, Brown argued for the separate influences of both land and capital goods on the pricing of goods and services and did not follow the trend in orthodox circles of considering land just another form of capital. Brown supported land value taxation at a time whe… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4051-0864-5
EAN: 9781405108645
Produktnummer: 1878783
Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Seitenangabe: 270 S.
Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.8 cm x D1.8 cm 466 g
Auflage: 3rd Edition
Gewicht: 466
Sonstiges: Undergraduate

Über den Autor

Dr. Christopher K. Ryan has taught economics at Babson College and the University of Northern Iowa. He is the author of Harry Gunnison Brown's Advocacy: The Case He Made for Land Value Taxation, 1917-1975 in The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 56 (Octrober 1997): 545-564; and with coauthor, Helen B. Ryan, George Raymond Geiger (1903-1998): A Rich Life in The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 58 (January 1999): 7 - 16. In addition to this interest in Harry Gunnison Brown, he is an experienced translator of Spanish writings into English, especially the historical essays of Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson.Laurence S. Moss now serves as editor of The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. He is a Professor of Economics at Babson College and has served as the President of the History of Economics Society. He is also a well-known historian of economic thought. Moss is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association and now serves on the Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.