William Amasa Scott Explained

William Amasa Scott (April 17, 1862 in Clarkson, New York^[1] –1944) was an American economist and one of the leading representatives of the marginalist school.^[2]

He received his B.A. from the University of Rochester in 1886, and his PhD under supervision of Richard T. Ely from Johns Hopkins University in 1892.^[3] Scott was a professor of Political Economy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison until 1931, and a contributor to John Kells Ingram’s A History of Political Economy.^[4]

Bibliography

• Scott, William A. . Rates on the New York Money Market, 1896-1906. Journal of Political Economy. 16. 5 . 1908. 273–98. 1820296. 10.1086/251433. free.
• William A. Scott. The Administration and Control of the Proposed Central Reserve Association. Journal of Political Economy . 19. 10 . 1911. 841–55. 1820331. 10.1086/251938. free.
• Scott, William A. . Popular and Unpopular Activities of the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science . 99 . 1922. 1 . 203–09. 1014531. 10.1177/000271622209900129. 144008673.
• Book: William Amasa Scott. The Repudiation of State Debts. 1893. T.Y. Crowell & Company.
• Book: William Amasa Scott. Money and Banking. 1916. H. Holt.

External links

• • Web site: William A. Scott. JSTOR.

Notes and References

1. https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinamerica02marq/page/1005/mode/2up Scott, William Amasa
2. Book: Stark, Werner . History and Historians of Political Economy . Transaction . 1994 . 162 . registration . 9781412825160 .
3. Web site: William A. Scott, 1862-1942 . HET: History of Economic Thought .
4. Walter A. . Morton . William A. Scott 1862–1944 . . 35 . 4 . 1945 . 786–787 . 1809430 .