Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman

Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman (April 25, 1861 – July 8, 1939), was an American economist.

Biography

He was born in New York City, a son of Joseph Seligman, a banker. He was educated at Columbia University, where he graduated in 1879. After studying for three years at the universities of Berlin, Heidelberg, Geneva, and Paris, he took postgraduate courses at Columbia between 1882 and 1884, and in the latter year received the degrees of LL.B. and Ph.D. He became lecturer at Columbia University in 1885. He was made an adjunct professor of political economy in 1888. He became McVickar professor of political economy in the same university in 1904.

Publications

He was one of the editors of the Political Science Quarterly from 1886, and also edited Columbia's series in history, economics, and public law from 1890. Among his publications are:

• Railway Tariffs (1887)
• The Shifting and Incidence of Taxation (1892; 3rd ed., 1910)
• Progressive Taxation in Theory and Practice (1894; 2nd ed. 1908)
• Economic Interpretation of History (1902; 2nd ed. 1907)
• "On Some Neglected British Economists" (1903), EJ, reprinted in Essays in Economics (1925)
• Principles of Economics (1907).
• "Economists", Cambridge History of English and American Literature, 1907
• The Income Tax, 1911.
• "Recent Reports on State and Local Taxation", 1911, AER
• "Tax Exemption Through Tax Capitalization: A Reply", 1916, AER
• "Who is the Twentieth Century Mandeville?", 1918, AER
• "Are Stock Dividends Income?", 1919, AER
• "The Cost of the War and How It Was Met", 1919, AER
• Studies in Public Finance, 1925.
• Essays in Economics, 1925.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). "Seligman, Edwin Robert Anderson". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 
•  "Seligman, Edwin Robert Anderson". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900.