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Ayres was born on 6 May 1891 in Lowell, Massachusetts, and died on 25 July 1972 in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Trained as a philosopher, with degrees from Brown and Chicago (PhD, 1917), Ayres taught at Chicago, Amherst and Reed before moving to the University of Texas at Austin in 1930, from which he retired in 1968. For one year, 1924–5, he was an associate editor of The New Republic, associated with Herbert Croly, John Dewey, Alvin Johnson and R.H. Tawney. He had a lifelong correspondence with another philosophically oriented, but more traditional economist, Frank H. Knight.
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Samuels, W.J. (2018). Ayres, Clarence Edwin (1891–1972). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_384
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