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Jeremiah Whipple Jenks
1856–1929
A leading American economist and public policy thinker of the Progressive Era, this Cornell professor brought academic research into debates over immigration, labor, and government reform. His work helped shape how the United States studied major social and economic questions in the early 1900s.
2 Audiobooks
Twelve Studies on the Making of a Nation: The Beginnings of Israel's History
by Charles Foster Kent, Jeremiah Whipple Jenks
Christianity and Problems of To-day: Lectures Delivered Before Lake Forest College on the Foundation of the Late William Bross
by John H. (John Huston) Finley, Jeremiah Whipple Jenks, Charles Foster Kent, Paul Elmer More, Robert Bruce Taylor
About the author
Born in St. Clair, Michigan, in 1856, he studied at the University of Michigan and later earned a doctorate at the University of Halle in Germany. He became known as an economist, educator, and public servant whose career moved between university life and national policy work.
He taught political economy at Cornell University and later served as a professor of government at New York University. Alongside his academic work, he took on a number of government assignments and became especially associated with investigations into immigration, labor, and economic policy.
Jenks was also active in the wider world of economics, serving as president of the American Economic Association in the early twentieth century. He died in New York in 1929, remembered as one of the scholars who helped connect American economic thought with practical questions of government and reform.