WILLIAM

See also:

• JAMES
• JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
• JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
• JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
• JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
• JAMES, EPISTLE OF
• JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
• JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
• JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
• JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)

JAMES

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• WILLIAM JAMES ASHLEY (186o- )

ASHLEY (186o- )  , English economist, was born in London on the 25th of February 186o . He was educated at St Olave's grammar school and Ballipl College, Oxford, and became a fellow of Lincoln College . In 1888 he was appointed professor of political economy and constitutional history in Toronto University, a pOSt which he resigned in 1802, in order to become professor of economic history at Harvard University . In Igo' he, was appointed professor of commerce and finance in Birmingham University and in 1902 dean of the faculty of commerce . Professor Ashley became well known for his work on the early history of English industry, and for his Prominence among those English economists who supported Mr Chamberlain's tariff reform movement . His most important works are Early History of the English Woollen Industry (18$7); Introduction to English Economic History and Theory (2 parts, 1888-1893); Surveys, Historic and Economic (r000); Adjustment of Wages-(1903); the Tariff Problem (2nd ed . 1904); Pragress of the German Working Classes (1904) .