Henry Carter Adams—economist
Birth
HENRY CARTER ADAMS (1852-), American economist, was born at Davenport, Iowa, on the 31st of December 1852.
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Education
He was educated at Iowa College and Johns Hopkins University, of which latter he was fellow and lecturer (1880-1882).
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Work
Henry Carter Adams Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan Rebecca M. Blank is Dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, Henry Carter Adams Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, and Professor of Economics. She is also the co-director of the National Poverty Center at the Ford School, funded by HHS to promote poverty-related research. Prior to coming to Michigan, she served as a Member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1997-1999. She has been a Professor of Economics at Northwestern University, and served as the first Director of the Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research.
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Henry Carter Adams 1851–1921, American economist, b. Davenport, Iowa. He developed an interest in public finance at Johns Hopkins Univ. and pursued this field during later studies in Germany. He taught economics at the Univ. of Michigan (18861921). Adams also worked with the Interstate Commerce Commission, making valuable contributions to the area of public trade regulation. He was a supporter of labor unions, and one of the first American economists to study the roles of the public and private ...
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He was afterwards a lecturer in Cornell University, and in 1887 became professor of political economy and finance in the university of Michigan. He also became statistician to the Interstate Commerce Committee and was in charge of the transportation department in the 1900 census. His principal ...
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Henry Carter Adams Collegiate Professor of Public Policy and professor of economics at the University of Michigan, Blank is on leave from Michigan this year. She is the co-director of the National Poverty Center at the Ford School at Michigan which is funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She was dean of the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy from 1999 to 2007. She previously taught at Northwestern University, Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and was a visiting fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was also a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Blank received her B.S. in economics from the University of Minnesota and her Ph.D. in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her lecture is sponsored by the Shepherd Program on Poverty and Human Capability.
