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JEREMIAH WHIPPLE JENKS (1856– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 319 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEREMIAH WHIPPLE JENKS (1856– )  ,
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American economist, was born in St Clair, Michigan, on the 2nd of September 1856 . He graduated at the university of Michigan in 1878; taught Greek, Latin and German in Mt . Morris College,
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Illinois; studied in Germany, receiving the degree of Ph.D. from the university of Halle in 1885; taught
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political science and
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English literature at Knox College,
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Galesburg,
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Ill., in 1886–1889; was professor of political
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economy and social science at
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Indiana State University in 1889-1891; and was successively professor of politi cal, municipal and social institutions (1891–1892), professor of political economy and
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civil and social institutions (1892–r9o1), and after 1901 professor of political economy and politics at Cornell University . In 1899–1901 he served as an expert agent of the
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United States
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industrial commission on investigation of
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trusts and industrial combinations in the United States and
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Europe, and contributed to vols. i., viii. and xiii. of this commission's report (1900 and 1901), vol. viii. being a report, written wholly by him, on industrial combinations in Europe . In 19o1–1902 he was
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special
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commissioner of the United States war department on colonial administration, and wrote a Report on Certain Economic Questions in the English and Dutch Colonies in the Orient, published (1902) by the bureau of insular affairs; and in 1903 he was adviser to the Mexican
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ministry of
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finance on projected currency changes . In 1903–1904 he was a member of the United States commission on international
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exchange, in especial charge of the reform of currency in
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China; in 1905 he was special representative of the United States with the imperial Chinese special
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mission visiting the United States . In 1907 he became a member.of the United States immigration commission . Best known as an expert on " trusts," he has written besides on elections, ballot reform, proportional representation, on
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education (especially as a training for citizenship), on legislation regarding highways, &c . His
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principal published
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works are Henry C . Carey als
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National-Okonom (Halle a . S., 1885); The
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Trust Problem (1900; revised 1903);
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Great Fortunes (1906); Citizenship and the
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Schools (1906); and Principles of Politics (1909) .

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