Arthur Latham Perry (February 27, 1830 – July 9, 1905), born in Lyme, New Hampshire, was a prominent American economist and advocate of free trade.

His best-known works were two, massive histories of the town he lived in: He also wrote a genealogy of his Perry family.

Though he was the "most widely read American economist of his time", with his texts taking only third place in sales behind those of Adam Smith and J.S.

[8] Perry conceived of economics as the "science of Buying and Selling," or, as Richard Whately earlier termed it, catallactics.

He married Mary Brown Smedley, with whom he had five sons, Bliss, Arthur, Walter, Carroll, and Lewis, and a daughter, Grace.