John Bates Clark (January 26, 1847 – March 21, 1938) was an American neoclassical economist. He was one of the pioneers of the marginalist revolution and opponent to the Institutionalist school of economics. He is best known for his book The Distribution of Wealth (1899), which examined the laws governing the distribution of economic resources. Clark was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and graduated from Amherst College in 1869. He then studied at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Berlin, where he was influenced by the German Historical School of economics. He returned to the United States in 1872 and taught at Amherst College and then at Columbia University. Clark was a prolific writer and his works include The Philosophy of Wealth (1886), The Control of Trusts (1901), and Essentials of Economic Theory (1907). He was a member of the American Economic Association and the American Philosophical Society. He was also a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Clark died in 1938 in New York City. He was buried in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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