Jacob Cardozo
{{Short description|American economist}}
Jacob Newton Cardozo (June 17, 1786{{snd}}August 30, 1873; né Jacob Nunez Cardozo) was an American political economist, statistician, newspaper editor, journalist, and publisher.
Biography
Born Jacob Nunez Cardozo, he was the son of David Cardozo. He was born in Savannah, Georgia. Cardozo moved with his family to Charleston, South Carolina when he was 8 years old. He was a Sephardic Jew.
He edited and later owned The Southern Patriot newspaper.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eOJ8QbxAHOIC&dq=Jacob+Cardozo&pg=PA6|title=Cardozo|first=Andrew L.|last=Kaufman|date=April 20, 1998|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-09645-5 |via=Google Books}} He became editor of The Southern Patriot in 1816 and became its sole proprietor in 1823. His book Notes on Political Economy was published in 1826.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0AtmeeXTgmQC&dq=Jacob+Cardozo&pg=PA917|title=Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860|first=Michael|last=O'Brien|date=March 1, 2004|publisher=Univ of North Carolina Press|isbn=978-0-8078-2800-7 |via=Google Books}} He advocated free trade.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LADOUweLXPsC&dq=Jacob+Cardozo&pg=PA42|title=Jewish Heroes & Heroines of America: 151 True Stories of Jewish American Heroism|first=Seymour|last=Brody|date=April 20, 2003|publisher=Frederick Fell Publishers|isbn=978-0-88391-026-9 |via=Google Books}} His book Reminiscences of Charleston was published in 1866.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bNRzXRfGOWwC&q=Jacob+Cardozo|title=Reminiscences of Charleston|first=Jacob Newton|last=Cardozo|date=April 20, 1866|publisher=J. Walker, printer|isbn=978-0-608-43274-8 |via=Google Books}} He sold The Southern Patriot newspaper in 1845 and established The Evening News, serving as its commerce editor.
He also wrote for the Southern Quarterly Review.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VMABAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22jacob+n.+cardozo%22&pg=PA179|title=The Jews of South Carolina: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day|first=Barnett Abraham|last=Elzas|date=April 20, 1905|publisher=J.B.Lippincott|via=Google Books}} Late in life he wrote for the Morning News in Savannah, but developed problems with his eyesight.
He died in Savannah. A book about him by Abram Cline Flora was published in 1949.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HLC1NwAACAAJ | title=Jacob N. Cardozo 1786-1873, South Carolina Economist | date=1949 | publisher=University of South Carolina }} Jacob N. Cardozo; Economic Thought in the Antebellum South by Melvin M. Leiman was published in 1966.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u7gQVQmCPk8C | isbn=978-0-231-09608-9 | title=Jacob N. Cardozo: Economic Thought in the Antebellum South | date=1966 | publisher=Columbia University Press }}
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