Henry Charles Carey
This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (February 2012) Henry Charles Carey Henry Charles Carey from a circa 1865 carte de visite photograph by Frederick Gutekunst Born (1793-12-15)15 December 1793 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Died 13 October 1879(1879-10-13) (aged 85) Nationality American Field Political economy School or tradition American School Henry Charles Carey (December 15, 1793 – October 13, 1879) was a leading 19th-century economist of the American School of capitalism, and chief economic adviser to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Carey is best known for the book The Harmony of Interests: Agricultural, Manufacturing, and Commercial (1851), which denigrates the "British System" of laissez faire free trade capitalism in comparison to the American System of developmental capitalism, which uses tariff protection and government intervention to encourage production and national self-sufficiency.