Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman

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Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman (April 28, 1861 - July 8, 1939), American economist, was born at New York.

He was educated at Columbia University, and, after studying for three years in Germany and France, became prize lecturer at Columbia University in 1885, being made adjunct professor of political economy in 1888. He became McVickar professor of political economy in the same university in 1904.

[edit] Publications

• Railway Tariffs (1887)
• The Shifting and Incidence of Taxation (1899; 3rd ed., 1910)
• Progressive Taxation in Theory and Practice (1894; 2nd ed. 1908)
• Economic Interpretation of History (1902; 2nd ed. 1907)
• Principles of Economics (1907).

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.