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WELLS, DAVID AMES (18281898)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 514 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WAT-WIL
WELLS, DAVID AMES (18281898) , American economist, was born in
Springfield
 , Massachusetts, on the 17th of June 1828. He graduated at Williams College in 1847, was on the editorial staff of the
Springfield
  Republican in 1848, and at that time invented a machine for folding
newspapers
  and book-sheets. He then removed to
Cambridge
 , graduated at the Lawrence Scientific School in 1851, and published in 18501865 with George Bliss (17931873) an Annual of Scientific Discovery. In 1866 he patented a process for preparing textile fabrics. His essay on the national debt, Our Burden and Our Strength (1864), secured him the appointment in 1865 as chairman of the national revenue commission, which laid the basis of scientific taxation in the United States. In 1866187o he was
special
 
commissioner
  of revenue and published important annual reports; during these years he became an advocate of free trade, and he argued that the natural resources of the United States must lead to industrial supremacy without the artificial assistance of a protective tariff which must produce an uneven development industrially. The creation of a Federal Bureau of Statistics in the Department of the Treasury was largely due to Wells's influence. In 1871 he was chairman of the New
York
  State Commission on local taxation which urged the abolition of personal taxes, except of moneyed corporations, and the levy of a tax on the rental value of dwellings to be paid by the occupant; and in 1878 he reported on New
York
  canal tolls. In 1877 he was president of the American Social Science Association. He died in Norwich, Connecticut, on the 5th of November 1898.
He edited many scientific text-books, and wrote The Creed of the Free Trader (1875), Robinson Crusoe's Money (1878), Our Merchant Marine (1832) , The Primer of Tariff Reform( 884) , Practical Economics (: 885), Principles of Taxation(' 886) ,
Recent
  Economic Changes (1889).


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