The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Emery, Henry Crosby
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EMERY, Henry Crosby, American economist:
b. Ellsworth, Me., 21 Dec. 1872. In 1892
he was graduated at Bowdoin and later studied
at Harvard, Columbia and Berlin. From 1894
to 1900 he was instructor and professor of
pohlical economy at Bowdoin and from 1901
to 1909 was professor of political economy at
Yale. In 1909 he was made chairman of the
United States Tariff Board, but returned to his
chair at Yale in 1913. He has written
‘Speculation on the Stock and Produce Exchanges
of the United States’ (in ‘Columbia University
Studies’ (1896); ‘The Tariff Board and
Its Work’ (1910); ‘The Work of the Tariff
Board in Connection with the Cotton Industry’
(1911); ‘Politician, Party and People’ (1913);
‘Some Economic Aspects of War’ (1914).