Frank William Taussig

Frank William Taussig ( born December 28, 1859 in St. Louis, † November 11, 1940 in Cambridge ( Massachusetts)) was an American economist.

Life and work

Taussig was the son of a successful doctor and businessman William Taussig, who had immigrated from Prague to the United States. Taussig studied at Harvard University ( and also in Berlin), where he graduated in 1879 and was made ​​in 1883 received his doctorate. 1886 was followed by a law degree. From 1892 until his Emieritierung 1935 he was Professor of Economics at Harvard ( his successor there was Joseph Schumpeter ).

He dealt with international trade (where he also influenced Jacob Viner, who earned his doctorate under him) and wage theory and was the author of several former economic standard works (such as Principles of Economics 1911).

1904 to 1905 he was president of the American Economic Association. 1917 to 1919 he was chairman of the 1916 founded United States Tariff Commission (now the United States International Trade Commission ), which advised the legislature and the executive in economics questions. He was a close economic advisor to Woodrow Wilson, who sent him as an advisor on trade agreements and in 1919 to Paris.

He was married in 1888 to Edith Thomas Guild, with whom he had four children. His daughter Helen Brooke Taussig was a well-known cardiologist at Johns Hopkins University. After the death of his first wife in 1910 he married Laura Fisher.

Writings

  • The Tariff History of the United States. 1888, 6th edition 1914
  • Protection to Young Industries as Applied to the United States. 1883, 2nd edition 1886
  • History of the Present Tariff, 1860-83. 1885
  • The Silver Situation in the United States. 1892, 3rd edition 1896
  • Wages and Capital. 1896
  • Principles of Economics. 1911, 2nd edition 1915
  • Some Aspects of the Tariff Question. 1915
  • Inventors and Money Makers. 1915 ( Lectures at Brown University)
  • Free Trade, the Tariff, and Reciprocity. 1919
  • Economist (19th Century )
  • Economist ( 20th century)
  • Americans
  • Born in 1859
  • Died in 1940
  • Man
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