John Bates Clark

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. John Bates Clark: A Life, 1847–1938

   • John F. Henry

   Pages 1-6

3. The ‘Christian Socialist’ Period, 1877–1886

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   Pages 7-26

4. Clark after Haymarket

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   Pages 27-45

5. The March to Distribution

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   Pages 47-70

6. The Distribution of Wealth

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   Pages 71-88

7. Clark, the Professionalization Process and the War Essays

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   Pages 89-116

8. On Trusts, Organized Labor and Other Matters

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   Pages 117-140

9. Conclusion

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   Pages 141-149

10. Back Matter

    Pages 151-180

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In this fresh study of the career and theoretical work of John Bates Clark, the first American economist to achieve international standing, Henry demonstrates that the usual interpretations of Clark are flawed, and that Clark set out to develop a theory of distribution that would support then current political authority and property relationships. Contrary to the normal view, it is shown that there is less of a difference between Clark's early 'Christian Socialist' writings and the writings of his mature period, and that perceptions and concerns formulated in his early career carry over into his more theoretically advanced stage. Also, Clark's religious perceptions are shown to have influenced not only his early thoughts, but those contained in the writings of the later period that brought him to the attention of economists in England and the Continent. Throughout this book, Henry demonstrates the relationship between Clark's theoretical work and the larger social forces then at work which both promoted and constrained his thinking and his economics.

• distribution
• economics
• science and technology
• trust

• Department of Economics, California State University, Sacramento, USA

  John F. Henry

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