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GUSTAV COHN (184o– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 652 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GUSTAV

COHN (184o– )  , German economist, was born on the 12th of December 184o at
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Marienwerder, in West Prussia . He was educated at Berlin and
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Jena
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universities . In 1869 he obtained a
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post at the polytechnic in Riga, and in 1875 was elected a professor at the polytechnic at Zurich . In 1873 he went to England for a period of study, and as a result published his Untersuchungen tither die englische Eisenbahnpolitik (
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Leipzig, 1874–187J) . In 1884 he was appointed professor of
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political science at
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Gottingen . Cohn's best-known
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works are
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System der Nationaldkonomie (
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Stuttgart, 1885); Finanzwissenschoft (1889); Nationalokonomische Studien (1886), and Zur Geschichte and Politik
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des Verkehrswesens (1900) .

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