EDWARD

See also:

• EDWARD ATKINSON (1827—1905)
• ATKINSON, SIR HARRY ALBERT (1831—1892)

ATKINSON (1827—1905)  , American economist, was born at Brookline, Massachusetts, on the loth of February 1827 . For many years he was engaged in managing various business enterprises, and became, in 1877, president of the Boston Manufacturers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company, a post which he held till his death . He was a strong controversialist and a prolific writer on such economic subjects as banking, railways, cotton manufacture, the tariff and free trade, and the money question . He was appointed in 1887 a special commissioner to report upon the status of bimetallism in Europe . He also made a special study of mill construction and fire prevention, and invented an improved cooking apparatus, called the " Aladdin oven." He was an active supporter of anti-imperialism . He died at Boston on the r rth of December 1905 . His principal works were Right Methods of Preventing Fires in Mills (1881); Distribution of Products (1885); Industrial Progress of the Nation (1889) ; Taxation and Work (1892) ; Science. of Nutrition (loth ed., 1898) .