Biographical Sketches:  RICHARD THEODORE ELY


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The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of Wm. H. Froehlich, Secretary of State 1901.

page 773-774

UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT HEADS RICHARD THEODORE ELY, Ph. D.. LL. D.,
Director of the School of Economics and Political Science, and
Professor of Political Economy, was born at Ripley, Chautauqua county,
N. Y., April 13, 1854. Columbia College, A. B., 1876; A. M., Columbia
College, 1879; Ph. D., Heidelberg University, 1879; LL. D., Hobart
College, 1892; Fellow in Letters, Columbia College, 1876-79; student
at the universities of Halle, Heidelberg and Geneva, and at the Royal
Statistical Bureau, Berlin, 1877-80; holder of the chair of Political.
Economy, Johns Hopkins University, 1881-92; secretary of the American
Economic Association, 1885-92; President of the American Economic
Association, 1899-1901: member of the Baltimore Tax Commission, 1885-
86; member of the Maryland Tax Commission, 1886-88; Professor of
Political Economy and Director of the School of Economics, Political
Science and History in the University of Wisconsin, 1892.
Publications-French and German Socialism in Modern Times, New York,
1883; The Past and the Present of Political Economy, Baltimore, 1884;
Japanese translation, Japan, 1888; Taxation in American States and
Cities, New York, 1888; Japanese translation, Tokyo, Japan, 1894;
Problems of To-Day, New York. 1888; Social Aspects of Christianity,
New York, 1889; also London, 1894; An Introduction to Political
Economy, New York and London, 1891; Japanese translation, Tokyo,
Japan, 1890; Dutch translation, Amsterdam, Holland, 1897; Outlines of
Economics (College edition), New York, 1892, also in raised characters
for the blind; Socialism and Social Reform, New York and London, 1894;
the Social Law of Service, New York, 1896; Monopolies and Trusts, New
York, and London, 1900. Frequent contributions to the North American
Review, the Forum, Harper's Magazine, the Century, Outlook, Harper's
Weekly, the Independent, etc.