JENKS, •EREMIAH WIIIPPLE (1856—). An American political economist and educator, born at Saint Clair, Mich. He graduated at the Uni versity of Michigan in ISTS: studied for several years in Germany. taking his doctorate at the University of Halle in ISS5. and after his re turn studied law and was. admitted to the bar. He taught Greek, Latin, and German at Mount Morris College for a time: was professor of po litical science and English literature at Knox College from ISS6 to 1S80; held the chair of political economy and social science at Indiana University in 13S9-91; and in 1391 became pro fessor of political economy and politics at Cor nell University. In 1899-1901 he was the expert agent of the United States Industrial Commis sion on Investigation of Trusts and Industrial Combinations in the United States and Europe, making a trip to Europe for the purpose of study ing the industrial combinations there; was for a time consulting expert of the United States Department of Labor on the subject of trusts and industrial combinations; visited Egypt, India, Burma, the Straits Settlements, .Java, and
the Philippines in 1902 as a special conunis sinner of the War Department, investigating ques tions of currency and internal taxation, labor, and police; and in 1903, at the request of the Mexican Government, went to Mexico to advise with the Mexican Minister of Finance concern ing an important change proposed in the currency system of that country. Besides numerous maga zine articles, his publications include: Henry C. Carey als Xationaltikonom (1885); The Trust Problem (1900, 3d ed. 1902) ; vols. xviii. of the Reports of the Industrial Commission: Trusts and Industrial Combinations ( 1900 ) , published by the United States Department of Labor: and Report on Certain Economic Ques tions in the English and Dutch Colonies in the Orient (1902). published by the Bureau of In sular Affairs of the War Department.