Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Seligman, Edwin Robert Anderson

SELIGMAN, Edwin Robert Anderson, educator, b. in New York city, 25 April, 1861. He is a son of Joseph Seligman, the banker, and was graduated from Columbia in 1879. From 1879-'82 he spent in Europe, studying at the universities of Berlin, Heidelberg, Geneva, and Paris. He took post-graduate courses at Columbia between 1882-'4. and in the latter year received the degrees of LL. B. and Ph.D. He has chosen political economy as his specialty, and has been identified

with Columbia from 1887-'90 as adjunct professor, and since 1890 as professor of political economy and finance. He has been one of the editors of the &ldquo;Political Science Quarterly&rdquo; since 1886, and the series in history, economics, and public law of Columbia since 1890. Prof. Seligman's publications include &ldquo;Chapters on Mediæval Guilds of England&rdquo; (Baltimore, 1887); &ldquo;Finance Statistics of American Commonwealths&rdquo; (Boston, 1889); &ldquo;Railway Tariffs and the Interstate Commerce Law&rdquo; (New York, 1887); &ldquo;The Shifting and Incidence of Taxation&rdquo; (1892; 2d edition, 1898); &ldquo;Progressive Taxation in Theory and Practice&rdquo; (1894); and &ldquo;Essays in Taxation&rdquo; (1895).