Asher Hobson

Asher Hobson (born November 26, 1889 in Quenemo , Osage County , Kansas , † February 29, 1992 in Blue Mounds , Dane County , Wisconsin ) was an American agricultural economist .

Life

Family and education

Asher Hobson, born in the city of Quenemo in the state of Kansas, son of Felix Hobson and his wife Ida May born Harr, graduated in 1913 with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Kansas . As a direct consequence, he turned in particular to the study of agricultural economics at the University of Wisconsin – Madison , where in 1915 he obtained the academic degree of a Master of Arts . In addition , he received his doctorate in 1931 as Doctor of Political Sciences at the University Institute for International Studies and Development .

Asher Hobson married Thea nee Dahle (1891–1986) on June 26, 1917. From this connection came the chemical engineer Dr. Merk Hobson (1921–1977) and the educator Madeleine Hobson Winner (1925–2010), Asher Hobson died at the end of February 1992 very old in Blue Mounds in the state of Wisconsin.

Professional background

Asher Hobson got his first position as Research Assistant in Agriculture Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1914 , which he filled until 1916. In 1917 he followed an appointment as State Director of Markets to Washington, DC In 1919 Hobson moved to the US Department of Agriculture in the position of Assistant Chief of the Office of Farm Management , which he held until the following year. He also took on an Associate Professorship of Economic Agriculture at Columbia University .

In 1922 Asher Hobson moved to Rome as a US delegate to the International Institute of Agriculture , in 1929 he returned to Washington DC as a Consulting Economist on the Federal Farm Board, and in 1930 he was appointed Chief of Division of Foreign Agriculture Service at the US Department of Agriculture committed. 1931 Asher Hobson accepted an appointment to the Chair of Agricultural Economics of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a year later was made Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics was transferred, in 1948 he put them back in 1953 he became professor emeritus . Since 1948 he was a member of the Committee of Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry of the United States Senate .

Hobson, one of the leading agricultural economists in the United States of his time, was a member of the American Economic Association , the American Farm Economic Association, the International Association of Agricultural Economists, the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, and the Phi Kappa Phi and the Delta Sigma Rho.

Fonts

• Can prices be controlled? : lesson O., American Institute of Agriculture, Chicago, Ill., 1923
• Agricultural economics in Europe. A survey of the teaching, research, and extension activities in agricultural economics in European countries, Rome, 1926
• Report on the Work of the Agricultural Commission of the Internationa Economic Conference, Geneva, May 4 to 23, 1927, Rome, 1927
• Memorandum on the second session of the Economic Consultative Committee of the League of Nations, 1929
• Report on the Fifteenth International Congress of Agriculture Held in Prague, Czechoslovakia, June 5-8, 1931, 1931
• The International Institute of Agriculture; an historical and critical analysis of its organization, activities and policies of administration, in: University of California publications in international relations., volume II, University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif., 1931
• Cooperation Principles and Practices: The Application of Cooperation to the Assembling, Processing, and Marketing of Farm Products; to the Purchase of Farm and Household Supplies; and to the Providing of Such Services as Credit, Insurance, Artificial Breeding and Rural Electric Power, in: Circular 420, Extension Service of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., 1952

literature

• Jaques Cattell Press .: American men of science; a biographical directory, volume III, Bowker, New York, 1956, p. 309.
• Who was who in America. : volume VIII, 1982-1985 with world notables , Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1985, p. 190.
• John Mark Hansen: Gaining access: Congress and the farm lobby, 1919-1981, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., 1991, p. 26.
• Ira Lawrence Baldwin, Donna Taylor Hartshorne: My half century at the University of Wisconsin, Privately published by Ira L. Baldwin, Madison, Wis., 1995, pp. 161, 162, 558.

Web links

• Literature by and about Asher Hobson in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Asher Hobson in the database of Find a Grave (English)