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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 112,036 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Henry Charles Carey is the 333rd most popular economist (down from 300th in 2019), the 7,886th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,142nd in 2019) and the 107th most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Henry Charles Carey ranks 333 out of 414. Before him are Ha-Joon Chang, Branko Milanović, John Lipsky, Daniele Archibugi, Fischer Black, and Thomas Hodgskin. After him are Gunter Pauli, Robert Rubin, Armen Alchian, W. Michael Blumenthal, Jacob Viner, and James Wilson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1793, Henry Charles Carey ranks 47. Before him are Joseph Paul Gaimard, William Hopkins, Philip Barker-Webb, Felix de Muelenaere, Jan Frans Willems, and Antoni Malczewski. After him are Erik Johan Stagnelius, John Clare, José Ignacio de Márquez, Robert Edmond Grant, Manuel Menéndez, and Thomas Doughty. Among people deceased in 1879, Henry Charles Carey ranks 59. Before him are Peter Arnold Heise, László Paál, Epameinondas Deligeorgis, Edward Blore, Jean Baptiste Boisduval, and John Bell Hood. After him are Emma Smith, William Fothergill Cooke, Juan Antonio Pezet, John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence, George Caleb Bingham, and Jacob Abbott.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Henry Charles Carey ranks 7,886 out of 20,380. Before him are Will Geer (1902), Richard Henry Lee (1732), George Perkins Marsh (1801), Jim Dine (1935), Boots Randolph (1927), and Michael Tilson Thomas (1944). After him are Michael Franks (1944), Donald Johnston (1899), Jean Carnahan (1933), Roderick Thorp (1936), Art Larsen (1925), and Riley Steele (1987).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Henry Charles Carey ranks 107. Before him are Anna Schwartz (1915), Anne Osborn Krueger (1934), Walter Block (1941), Lawrence Summers (1954), John Lipsky (1947), and Fischer Black (1938). After him are Robert Rubin (1938), Armen Alchian (1914), Don Patinkin (1922), Edith Abbott (1876), John B. Taylor (1946), and Frank Fetter (1863).

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