Economic Essays by Charles Franklin Dunbar

Abstract

NO American economist has been held in higher repute for judiciousness, breadth of view, and “soundness” than Charles Franklin Dunbar, professor of political economy at Harvard from 1871 until his death in 1900, sometime Dean of the college (between 1876 and 1882), and later Dean of the faculty of arts and sciences. But his output was never extensive, perhaps because the university teaching of political economy was not his first choice, or at any rate not his first calling. It was not until Prof. Dunbar had attained the ripe age of forty-one that he was appointed to his professorship at Harvard. Previously he had engaged in newspaper work, and had edited between 1859 and 1869 the Boston Daily Advertiser. To the work of the editorship of this paper Prof. Dunbar returned for a brief space to fill a breach at a time of crisis in 1884.