biography
| name: |
Carey, Henry Charles
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pronunciation:
[kairee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1793–1879)
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| biography:
| Economist and publisher, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He did not attend college but began working in business, and by age 24 was a partner in his father's Baltimore publishing business, learning by reading manuscripts submitted for publication. At age 42 he sold the company in order to devote his time to economics, publishing Essay on the Rate of Wages in 1935. He espoused laissez-faire economics in Principles of Political Economy (3 vols, 1837–40) and protectionism in Harmony of Interests: Manufacturing and Commercial (1851). He continued to write and publish regularly into the 1870s. |
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