The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Taussig, Frank William

TAUSSIG, Frank William, American political economist: b. Saint Louis, Mo., 28 Dec. 1859. He was graduated at Harvard in 1879, and has been full professor of political economy there since 1892. He has written &lsquo;Tariff History of the United States&rsquo; (1st ed., 1888; 6th ed., 1914); &lsquo;Silver Situation in the United States&rsquo; (1802); &lsquo;Wages and Capital&rsquo; (1896); &lsquo;Principles of Economics&rsquo; (1911); &lsquo;Some Aspects of the Tariff Question&rsquo; (1915); &lsquo;Inventors and Moneymakers&rsquo; (1915), and has been editor-in-chief of The Quarterly Journal of Economics.