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American social scientist. Born in Philadelphia, the son of Mathew Carey, he was a prolific author, and his influence, though short-lived, spread from Pennsylvania throughout the nation and to Europe.
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Conkin, P.K. 1980. Prophets of prosperity: America’s first political economists. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Dorfman, J. 1946. The economic mind in American civilization 1606–1865, vol. 2. New York: Viking.
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Spiegel, H.W. (2018). Carey, Henry Charles (1793–1879). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_32
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