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Genesis of the American Economic Association

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On Marginal Revolution, Alex Tabarrok discusses the radicalism of the early American Economic Association (founded 1885) and its co-founder, Richard T. Ely. Prominent economists at the time rejected the marginalist principle, held socialist and racist views and supported eugenics.

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On Marginal Revolution, Alex Tabarrok discusses the radicalism of the early American Economic Association (founded 1885) and its co-founder, Richard T. Ely. Prominent economists at the time rejected the marginalist principle, held socialist and racist views and supported eugenics.

Dirk Niepelt
Dirk Niepelt is Director of the Study Center Gerzensee and Professor at the University of Bern. A research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR, London), CESifo (Munich) research network member and member of the macroeconomic committee of the Verein für Socialpolitik, he served on the board of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics and was an invited professor at the University of Lausanne as well as a visiting professor at the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) at Stockholm University.

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