Mathew Carey | |
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 Mathew Carey by John Neagle (detail), 1825 | |
| Born | January 28, 1760 |
| Died | September 16, 1839 (aged 79) |
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Mathew Carey (January 28, 1760 – September 16, 1839) was an Irish-born American publisher and economist who lived and worked in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In Dublin, he had engaged in the cause of parliamentary reform, and in America, attracting the wrath of Federalists, retained his democratic sympathies. However, he broke with the emerging Democratic Party and its southern constituency by offering a defense of economic protectionism. He was the father of economist Henry Charles Carey.