One of the most highly regarded and best known economist of the early eighteen hundreds was . Of all the many American economists in the first half of the nineteenth century, the best known, especially outside of America, was . Being born in Philadelphia, Carey's views were that typically of an American. The manor, in which he opposed other economists and established his own theories, distinguished him as a prominent figure not only in his hometown of Philadelphia but in the entire United States. He rejected Malthus and Ricardo on sev ....