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ASHLEY, WILLIAM JAMES (186o- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 733 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ASHLEY, See also:WILLIAM See also:JAMES (186o- ) , See also:English economist, was See also:born in See also:London on the 25th of See also:February 186o. He was educated at St Olave's See also:grammar school and Ballipl See also:College, See also:Oxford, and became a See also:fellow of See also:Lincoln College. In 1888 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:political See also:economy and constitutional See also:history in See also:Toronto University, a See also:pOSt which he resigned in 1802, in See also:order to become professor of economic history at Harvard University. In Igo' he, was appointed professor of See also:commerce and See also:finance in See also:Birmingham University and in 1902 See also:dean of the See also:faculty of commerce. Professor Ashley became well known for his See also:work on the See also:early history of English See also:industry, and for his Prominence among those English economists who supported Mr See also:Chamberlain's See also:tariff reform See also:movement. His most important See also:works are Early History of the English Woollen Industry (18$7); Introduction to English Economic History and Theory (2 parts, 1888-1893); Surveys, Historic and Economic (r000); See also:Adjustment of See also:Wages-(1903); the Tariff Problem (2nd ed. 1904); Pragress of the See also:German Working Classes (1904).

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