William Amasa Scott

William Amasa Scott (April 17, 1862 in Clarkson, New York[1]–1944) was an American economist and one of the leading representatives of the marginalist school.[2]

He received his B.A. from the University of Rochester in 1886, and his PhD under supervision of Richard T. Ely from Johns Hopkins University in 1892.[3] Scott was a professor of Political Economy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison until 1931, and a contributor to John Kells Ingram’s A History of Political Economy.[4]

Bibliography

  • Scott, William A. (1908). "Rates on the New York Money Market, 1896-1906". Journal of Political Economy. 16 (5): 273–98. doi:10.1086/251433. JSTOR 1820296.
  • William A. Scott (1911). "The Administration and Control of the Proposed Central Reserve Association". Journal of Political Economy. 19 (10): 841–55. doi:10.1086/251938. JSTOR 1820331.
  • Scott, William A. (1922). "Popular and Unpopular Activities of the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 99 (1): 203–09. doi:10.1177/000271622209900129. JSTOR 1014531. S2CID 144008673.
  • William Amasa Scott (1893). The Repudiation of State Debts. T.Y. Crowell & Company.
  • William Amasa Scott (1916). Money and Banking. H. Holt.

References

  1. ^ Scott, William Amasa in Who's Who in America (1901-1902 edition), via archive.org
  2. ^ Stark, Werner (1994). History and Historians of Political Economy. Transaction. p. 162. ISBN 9781412825160.
  3. ^ "William A. Scott, 1862-1942". HET: History of Economic Thought.
  4. ^ Morton, Walter A. (1945). "William A. Scott 1862–1944". American Economic Review. 35 (4): 786–787. JSTOR 1809430.


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