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Clark (JOHN BATES an American)

JOHN BATES, an American economist; born in Providence, R. I., Jan. 26, 1847. He was graduated at Amherst in 1872, studied at the Universities of Heidelberg and Zurich, and received degrees from several domestic and foreign univ gn universities. He was professor of political economy at Carleton College (1877-1881), Smith College assumed the same chair at Columbia (1882-1893), Amherst (1892-1895), and University in 1895. He was a member of many domestic and foreign scientific associations, one of the editors of the "Political Science Quarterly," and contributed many articles to economic reviews and journals. He also published: "Philosophy of Wealth" (1885); "Distribution of Wealth" (1895); "Control of Trusts" (1901); "Problem of Monopoly" (1904); "Essentials of Economic Theory" (1907); "Modern Distributive Process" (with F. H. Giddings); etc.