See also:ARTHUR See also:TWINING See also:HADLEY (1856– )
, See also:American See also:political economist and educationist, See also:president of Yale University, was See also:born in New Haven, See also:Connecticut, on the 23rd of See also:April 1856
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He was the son of 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 See also:Hadley, the philologist, from whom, as from his See also:mother—whose See also:brother, See also:Alexander See also:Catlin See also:Twining (1801–1884), was an astronomer and authority on constitutional See also:law—he inherited unusual mathematical ability
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He graduated at Yale in 1876 as valedictorian, having taken prizes in See also:English, See also:classics and See also:astronomy; studied political
See also:science at Yale (1876–1877) and at See also:Berlin (1878–1879); was a See also:tutor at Yale in 1879–1883, instructor in political science in 1883-1886, See also:professor of political science in 1886–1891, professor of political See also:economy in 1891–1899, and See also:dean of the See also:Graduate School in 1892–1895; and in 1899 became president of, Yale University—the first layman to hold that See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office
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He was See also:commissioner of the Connecticut See also:bureau of labour See also:statistics in 1885–1887
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As an economist he first became widely known through his investigation of the railway question and his study of railway rates, which antedated the popular excitement as to rebates
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His Railroad Transportation, its See also:History and See also:Laws (1885) became a See also:standard See also:work, and appeared in See also:Russian (1886) and See also:French (1887); he testified as an See also:expert on transportation before the See also:Senate See also:committee which See also:drew up the Interstate See also:Commerce Law; and wrote on See also:railways and transportation for the Ninth and Tenth See also:Editions (of which he was one of the editors) of the See also:Encyclopaedia Britannica, for Lalor's Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and Political History of the See also:United States (3 vols., 1881–1884), for The American Railway (1888), and for The Railroad See also:Gazette in 1884–1891, and for other See also:periodicals
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His See also:idea of the broad See also:- SCOPE (through Ital. scopo, aim, purpose, intent, from Gr. o'KOaos, mark to shoot at, aim, o ic07reiv, to see, whence the termination in telescope, microscope, &c.)
scope of economic science, especially of the See also:place of See also:ethics in relation to political economy and business, is expressed in his writings and public addresses
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In 1907–1908 he was See also:Theodore See also:Roosevelt professor of American History and Institutions in the university of Berlin
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Among his other publications are: See also:Economics: an See also:Account of the Relations between Private See also:Property and Public Welfare (1896) ; The See also:Education of the American See also:Citizen (1901); The Relations between Freedom and Responsibility in the See also:Evolution of Democratic See also:Government (1903, in Yale Lectures on the Responsibilities of Citizenship); Baccalaureate Addresses (1907); and See also:Standards of Public Morality (1907), being the See also:Kennedy Lectures for 1906
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