The American economist John Bates Clark (1847-1938) was the first economic theorist from the United States to achieve an international reputation. John Bates Clark was born and raised in Providence, R. I. In 1872, after an absence due to his father's...

US economist famous for the theory of MARGINAL PRODUCTIVITY. He was educated at Brown University, Amherst College and the University of Heidelberg. For most of his academic career, from 1895 to 1923, he was a professor at Columbia University His major...

John Bates Clark (26 January 1847 – 21 March 1938) was an American neo-classical economist. He was one of the pioneers of the marginalist revolution and opponent to the Institutionalist school of economics, and spent most of his career teaching at...