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Henry Charles Carey was born on December 15, 1793 in Philadelphia, where his father, Mathew Carey, was a leading bookseller and publisher.
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Henry Charles Carey was born on December 15, 1793 in Philadelphia, where his father, Mathew Carey, was a leading bookseller and publisher.
Henry was largely self-taught, obtaining his education through reading books and manuscripts.
At the age of eight Carey began work in his father’s bookshop as an apprentice. At 16 he became a traveling salesman for his father, covering a large part of the East Coast. He was known in the trade by the title of the "Miniature Book-seller. " At 21 he succeeded his father as the president of the company, which at the time was among the largest publishing houses in America. The company’s name was first changed into “Carey, Lea & Carey, ” and finally into “Carey & Hart. ”
In 1829 he co-founded the famous Franklin Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia. In 1835, as financiers from London started to retreat from investing in America, Carey decided to sell his business. It proved to be a wise move, since two years later one of the worst economic depressions hit the American market, causing bankruptcy for a thousand businesses. After his early retirement from the publishing business, he devoted himself to his investments, writing, and public affairs.
Carey's fame rests on the books he published from 1835 to 1872. They reflected the influence of his father in their anti-British sentiment and espousal of protectionism. Their content ranged over the then barely divided fields of sociology and economics, with occasional glimpses of the order of the universe, which in Carey's opinion was ruled by the same laws that controlled social relationships.
His work, Principles of Political Economy, was published in three volumes from 1837 to 1840. Although previously a supporter of the free trade economy of laissez-faire, sobered by the economic crisis that lasted for five years, Carey started to advocate for protectionism. His book from 1848, Past, Present, and Future, fiercely opposed the free trade or "British system" of classical economics, while in his 1853 The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign he criticized the slave economy.
Carey's ideas on economics were more optimistic than those of the classical economists. Compared with them, he laid greater stress on harmony than on potential conflict between economic groups. Like other American economists of the time, Carey rejected Thomas Malthus's view of the population relentlessly pressing against food resources. He had no use for David Ricardo's theory of rent, according to which the rental income of the more favorably situated landowners, who enjoyed low cost, would increase as less suitable land was taken into cultivation.
On the basis of the American experience, Carey pointed out, the historical movement did not proceed from the most fertile lands to less fertile ones but in the reverse order. Carey directed his most pronounced criticism to the free-trade implications of Adam Smith's and Ricardo's doctrines, which in his opinion would perpetuate British economic power and stifle the economic development of the United States.
Carey saw his efforts rewarded by the tariff legislation of the United States. Abroad, and especially on the Continent, where the free-trade doctrine was less firmly established than in Britain, his works found many readers. His influence on academic economics was noticeable mainly at the University of Pennsylvania. When he died in Philadelphia on October 13, 1879, he was mourned as a national leader.
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Carey associated himself with the Republican party when it was established in the 1850s; the highly protectionist plank in the party platform of 1860 reflected his influence.