Wells, David Ames 1828-1898
Economist; born in Springfield, Mass., June 17, 1828; graduated at Williams College in 1847 and at the Lawrence Scientific School 1851; appointed assistant professor in the last institution; chairman of a commission to consider the best way to raise money by taxation for the needs of the government in 1866; special commissioner of revenue in 1866-70; and became a member of the board of arbitration for railroads in 1879. He was a voluminous writer on economic subjects. His publications include Our burden and strength; The creed of free-trade; Production and distribution of wealth; Why we trade and how we trade; The silver question, or the dollar of the fathers vs. The dollar of the Sons; Report of the United States revenue commission; Our merchant marine: how it rose, increased, became Great, declined, and decayed; Relation of tariff to wages, |
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