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JENKS, JEREMIAH WHIPPLE (1856– )

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JENKS, See also:JEREMIAH WHIPPLE (1856– ) , See also:American economist, was See also:born in St Clair, See also:Michigan, on the 2nd of See also:September 1856. He graduated at the university of Michigan in 1878; taught See also:Greek, Latin and See also:German in Mt. See also:Morris See also:College, See also:Illinois; studied in See also:Germany, receiving the degree of Ph.D. from the university of See also:Halle in 1885; taught See also:political See also:science and See also:English literature at See also:Knox College, See also:Galesburg, See also:Ill., in 1886–1889; was See also:professor of political See also:economy and social science at See also:Indiana See also:State University in 1889-1891; and was successively professor of politi cal, municipal and social institutions (1891–1892), professor of political economy and See also:civil and social institutions (1892–r9o1), and after 1901 professor of political economy and politics at Cornell University. In 1899–1901 he served as an See also:expert See also:agent of the See also:United States See also:industrial See also:commission on investigation of See also:trusts and industrial combinations in the United States and See also:Europe, and contributed to vols. i., viii. and xiii. of this commission's See also:report (1900 and 1901), vol. viii. being a report, written wholly by him, on industrial combinations in Europe. In 19o1–1902 he was See also:special See also:commissioner of the United States See also:war See also:department on colonial See also:administration, and wrote a Report on Certain Economic Questions in the English and Dutch Colonies in the Orient, published (1902) by the See also:bureau of insular affairs; and in 1903 he was adviser to the Mexican See also:ministry of See also:finance on projected currency changes. In 1903–1904 he was a member of the United States commission on See also:international See also:exchange, in especial See also:charge of the reform of currency in See also:China; in 1905 he was special representative of the United States with the imperial See also:Chinese special See also:mission visiting the United States. In 1907 he became a member.of the United States See also:immigration commission. Best known as an expert on " trusts," he has written besides on elections, See also:ballot reform, proportional See also:representation, on See also:education (especially as a training for citizenship), on legislation regarding highways, &c. His See also:principal published See also:works are See also:Henry C. See also:Carey als See also:National-Okonom (Halle a. S., 1885); The See also:Trust Problem (1900; revised 1903); See also:Great Fortunes (1906); Citizenship and the See also:Schools (1906); and Principles of Politics (1909).

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