Quote of the day
It is very wicked for you not to take care of your masters goods, but how much worse is it to pilfer and steal from them, whenever you think you shall not be found out.
Richard T. Ely
Born: April 13, 1854
Died: October 4, 1943 (aged 89)
Bio: Richard Theodore Ely was an American economist, author, and leader of the Progressive movement. Ely is best remembered as a founder and the first Secretary of the American Economic Association, and as the author of a series of widely-read books on the organized labor movement, socialism, and other social questions.
Known for:
- Outlines of economics (1893)
- Taxation in American states and cities (1888)
- The labor movement in America (1886)
- Ground under our feet (1938)
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