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Author: Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903.

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, 1870; Ph. D., Heidelberg University, 1879; LL. D.,
Hobart College, 1892; Fellow in Letters, Columbia College,
1870-79; 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,
1886-8; Professor of Political Economy and Director of the
School of Economics and Political Science in the University of
Wisconsin, 1892. Publications—French and German Socialism in
Modern Times, New York, 1888; 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
Today, 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, 1893,
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; Italian translation, Turin, 1902; The Coming City, New
York, 1902; is editor of MacMillan's Citizens Library of
Economics, Politics and Sociology, and a frequent contributor
to the North American Review, the Forum, Harper's Magazine,
the Century, Outlook, Harper's Weekly, the Independent, etc.

Additional Comments:
The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin. Compiled and
Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson,
Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903. 1069
- 1117.

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