Richard Theodore Ely, Ph. D., LL.D. (born April 13, 1854 in Ripley, New York; died October 4, 1943 in Old Lyme, Connecticut) was an American economist. He was born as the eldest of three children of Ezra Sterling and Harriet Gardner (Mason) Ely. Ely received his undergraduate degree from Columbia, later receiving his doctorate in economics from the University of Heidelberg, where he studied under Karl Knies. Wikipedia
Richard Theodore Ely may truly be said to need no introduction to a Wisconsin, or even an American, circle of readers. His name has long been inseparably connected with the University of Wisconsin and with all forward movements in the state, looking towa www.library.wisc.edu/etext/WIReader/WER0751.html
Considered by some as a German Historicist in American clothing, Richard T. Ely was one of the prominent proponents of the historical method in America and thus a leading forerunner of the American Institutionalist School. cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/ely.htm
Description Private colonization of land Source: Ely, Richard Theodore, 1854-1943 Private colonization of land Bulletin No. 1 Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin, 1918 27 p. : forms ; 23 cm. digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.AAALSept1918
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