Davis Rich Dewey
Statistician, Author
1858 – 1942
Who was Davis Rich Dewey?
Davis Rich Dewey, Ph. D. was an American economist and statistician.
He was born at Burlington, Vermont. Like his younger brother, John Dewey, he was educated at the University of Vermont and Johns Hopkins University. He later became professor of economics and statistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was chairman of the Massachusetts state board on the question of the unemployed, member of the Massachusetts commission on public, charitable, and reformatory interests, special expert agent on wages for the 12th census, and member of a state commission on industrial relations.
Dewey became managing editor of the American Economic Review in 1911. He wrote:
Syllabus on Political History since 1815
Financial History of the U.S.
Employees and Wages: Special Report on the Twelfth Census
National Problems
The primary library for the MIT Sloan School of Management, MIT Department of Economics, and MIT Department of Political Science is named after Dewey.
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- Born
- Apr 7, 1858
Burlington - Siblings
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Johns Hopkins University
- University of Vermont
- Lived in
- Vermont
- Died
- Dec 13, 1942
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on July 23, 2013
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