Charles Cobb (economist)

Charles Wiggins Cobb (* 1875, † 1949) was an American mathematician and economist.

Charles Wiggins Cobb taught at Amherst College in Massachusetts. Together with Paul Howard Douglas he had named after them Cobb - Douglas function by empirically.

Writings

• The Asymptotic Development for a Certain Function of Zero Order (1913 )
• Manufacturing in Ten States: 1921-1931 (1935 )
• Notes on Massachusetts manufacturing ( 1939)
• Notes on United States Manufacturing ( 1940)