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Carver, Thomas Nixon, 1865-1961

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Personal name headingCarver, Thomas Nixon, 1865-1961
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Birth date1865-03-25
Death date1961-03-08
Place of birthKirkville (Iowa)
Place of deathSanta Monica (Calif.)
Field of activityEconomics Sociology
AffiliationOberlin College
Harvard University
Profession or occupationCollege teachers
Found inHis The Ohio tax inquisitor law, 1898.
The westerner, 1930: page 7 (A positive religion, by Thomas Nixon Carver)
Wikipedia, 31 May 2016 (Thomas Nixon Carver, born 25 March 1865 in Kirkville, Iowa; died 8 March 1961 in Santa Monica, California; American economics professor; he received an undergraduate education at Iowa Wesleyan College and the University of Southern California; he received a Ph. D. from Cornell University in 1894; 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 Secretary-Treasurer of the American Economic Association (1909-1913) and was elected its President in 1916; he made pioneering contributions to agricultural and rural economics and in rural sociology and wrote on such diverse topics as monetary economics, macroeconomics, the distribution of wealth, the problem of evil, uses of religion, political science, political economy, social justice, behavioral economics, social evolution, and the economics of national survival)
Associated languageeng