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See also:HADLEY, See also:ARTHUR See also:TWINING (1856– ) , See also:American See also:political economist and educationist, See also:president of Yale University, was See also:born in New Haven, See also:Connecticut, on the 23rd of See also:April 1856. He was the son of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James Hadley, the philologist, from whom, as from his See also:mother—whose See also:brother, See also:Alexander See also:Catlin Twining (1801–1884), was an astronomer and authority on constitutional See also:law—he inherited unusual mathematical ability. He graduated at Yale in 1876 as valedictorian, having taken prizes in See also:English, See also:classics and See also:astronomy; studied political
See also:science at Yale (1876–1877) and at See also:Berlin (1878–1879); was a See also:tutor at Yale in 1879–1883, instructor in political science in 1883-1886, See also:professor of political science in 1886–1891, professor of political See also:economy in 1891–1899, and See also:dean of the See also:Graduate School in 1892–1895; and in 1899 became president of, Yale University—the first layman to hold that See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office. He was See also:commissioner of the Connecticut See also:bureau of labour See also:statistics in 1885–1887. As an economist he first became widely known through his investigation of the railway question and his study of railway rates, which antedated the popular excitement as to rebates. His Railroad Transportation, its See also:History and See also:Laws (1885) became a See also:standard See also:work, and appeared in See also:Russian (1886) and See also:French (1887); he testified as an See also:expert on transportation before the See also:Senate See also:committee which See also:drew up the Interstate See also:Commerce Law; and wrote on See also:railways and transportation for the Ninth and Tenth See also:Editions (of which he was one of the editors) of the See also:Encyclopaedia Britannica, for Lalor's Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and Political History of the See also:United States (3 vols., 1881–1884), for The American Railway (1888), and for The Railroad See also:Gazette in 1884–1891, and for other See also:periodicals. His See also:idea of the broad See also:- SCOPE (through Ital. scopo, aim, purpose, intent, from Gr. o'KOaos, mark to shoot at, aim, o ic07reiv, to see, whence the termination in telescope, microscope, &c.)
scope of economic science, especially of the See also:place of See also:ethics in relation to political economy and business, is expressed in his writings and public addresses. In 1907–1908 he was See also:Theodore See also:Roosevelt professor of American History and Institutions in the university of Berlin.
Among his other publications are: See also:Economics: an See also:Account of the Relations between Private See also:Property and Public Welfare (1896) ; The See also:Education of the American See also:Citizen (1901); The Relations between Freedom and Responsibility in the See also:Evolution of Democratic See also:Government (1903, in Yale Lectures on the Responsibilities of Citizenship); Baccalaureate Addresses (1907); and See also:Standards of Public Morality (1907), being the See also:Kennedy Lectures for 1906.
End of Article: HADLEY, ARTHUR TWINING (1856– )
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