Frank William Taussig

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Frank William Taussig, photograph by the Pach Brothers , 1885–1890

Frank William Taussig (born December 28, 1859 in St. Louis , † November 11, 1940 in Cambridge (Massachusetts) ) was an American economist .

Live and act

Taussig was the son of the successful doctor and businessman William Taussig, who immigrated to the USA from Prague . Taussig studied at Harvard University (and also in Berlin), where he graduated in 1879 and received his doctorate in 1883. A law degree followed in 1886. From 1892 until his retirement in 1935 he was Professor of Economics at Harvard (his successor there was Josef Schumpeter ).

He dealt with international trade (whereby he also influenced Jacob Viner , who received his doctorate) and wage theory and was the author of several standard economic works at the time (such as the Principles of Economics 1911).

From 1904 to 1905 he was president of the American Economic Association . From 1917 to 1919 he was chairman of the United States Tariff Commission (now the United States International Trade Commission ), founded in 1916 , which advised the legislature and executive on economic issues. He was a close economic advisor to Woodrow Wilson , who also sent him to Paris in 1919 as an advisor on trade agreements.

In 1889 he was honored with admission to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Since 1929 he was an elected member of the American Philosophical Society .

He was married to Edith Thomas Guild since 1888, with whom he had four children. His daughter, Helen Brooke Taussig, was a noted cardiologist at Johns Hopkins University . After the death of his first wife in 1910, he married Laura Fisher.

Fonts

Wages and capital , 1935
  • The Tariff History of the United States . 1888, 6th edition 1914
  • Protection to Young Industries as Applied to the United States . 1883, 2nd edition 1886
  • History of the Present Tariff, 1860-1883 . 1885
  • The Silver Situation in the United States . 1892, 3rd edition 1896
  • Wages and Capital . 1896
  • Principles of Economics . 1911, 2nd edition 1915
  • Some Aspects of the Tariff Question . 1915
  • Inventors and Money Makers . 1915 (lectures at Brown University )
  • Free Trade, the Tariff, and Reciprocity . 1919

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Past and Present Officers. aeaweb.org ( American Economic Association ), accessed October 31, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Member History: Frank W. Taussig. American Philosophical Society, accessed December 28, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Taussig, Frank William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Louis
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1940
Place of death Cambridge, Massachusetts