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Henry Charles Carey

1793 - 1879

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Henry Charles Carey (December 15, 1793 – October 13, 1879) was an American publisher, political economist, and politician from Pennsylvania. He was the leading 19th-century economist of the American School and a chief economic adviser to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase during the American Civil War. Carey's central work is The Harmony of Interests: Agricultural, Manufacturing, and Commercial (1851), which criticizes the system of laissez faire capitalism and free trade expounded by Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo in favor of the American System of developmentalism through the use of tariff protection and state intervention to encourage national self-sufficiency and unity. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Charles Carey has received more than 103,577 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Charles Carey is the 303rd most popular economist, the 7,157th most popular biography from United States and the 98th most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Henry Charles Carey ranks 303 out of 315. Before him are Abhijit Banerjee, Michel Chossudovsky, Leonid Abalkin, Walter Block, Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, and José Ángel Gurría. After him are Branko Milanović, Ha-Joon Chang, Ilham Tohti, Fischer Black, Rose Friedman, and Jan Krzysztof Bielecki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1793, Henry Charles Carey ranks 44. Before him are Auguste of Anhalt-Dessau, Kazim Rashti, Stephen F. Austin, Nana Asmaʼu, Philip Barker-Webb, and Felix de Muelenaere. After him are Erik Johan Stagnelius, William Hopkins, Jan Frans Willems, John Clare, Manuel Menéndez, and Eliphalet Remington. Among people deceased in 1879, Henry Charles Carey ranks 56. Before him are Peter Arnold Heise, John Bell Hood, Paul Gervais, Marguerite Bays, László Paál, and Jakob Stämpfli. After him are Epameinondas Deligeorgis, Juan Antonio Pezet, Emma Smith, John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence, George Caleb Bingham, and Richard H. Anderson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Henry Charles Carey ranks 7,157 out of 18,182. Before him are Alan Helffrich (1900), Keri Russell (1976), Little Eva (1943), Andrea Elson (1969), Mark Snow (1946), and Buster Crabbe (1908). After him are Sherry Stringfield (1967), Theodore Roberts (1861), James Darren (1936), Wilhelmina von Bremen (1909), Grant Heslov (1963), and Kirsten Vangsness (1972).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Henry Charles Carey ranks 98. Before him are Seth Godin (1960), Lawrence Summers (1954), Anna Schwartz (1915), Robert Rubin (1938), Charles P. Kindleberger (1910), and Walter Block (1941). After him are Fischer Black (1938), Armen Alchian (1914), John Lipsky (1947), Anthony Downs (1930), Anne Osborn Krueger (1934), and Joshua Angrist (1960).

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