Davis Rich Dewey
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Davis Rich Dewey, Ph. D. (1858-1942), American economist and statistician, was born at Burlington, Vermont, on 7 April 1858. He was educated at the University of Vermont and at Johns Hopkins University, and afterwards became professor of economics and statistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was chairman of the state board on the question of the unemployed (1895), member of the Massachusetts commission on public, charitable and reformatory interests (1897), special expert agent on wages for the 12th census, and member of a state commission (1904) on industrial relations.
Professor Dewey became managing editor of the American Economic Review in 1911. He wrote:
- Syllabus on Political History since 1815 (1887)
- Financial History of the U.S. (1902; fourth edition, 1912)
- Employees and Wages: Special Report on the Twelfth Census (1903)
- National Problems (1907)
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- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
