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EDWIN SELIGMAN

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 606 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWIN See also:SELIGMAN  'See also:ROBERT See also:ANDERSON (1861– ), See also:American economist, was See also:born at New See also:York on the 25th of See also:April 1861 . He was educated at See also:Columbia University, and, after studying for three years. in See also:Germany and See also:France, became See also:prize lecturer at Columbia University in 1885, being made See also:adjunct See also:professor of See also:political See also:economy in 1888 . He became McVickar professor of political economy in the same university in 1904 . His See also:principal See also:works are Railway Tariffs (1887), The Shifting and Incidence of See also:Taxation (1899; 3rd ed., 1910), Progressive Taxation in Theory and Practice (1894; 2nd ed . 1908), Economic See also:Interpretation of See also:History (1902; 2nd ed . 1907), and Principles of See also:Economics (1907) .

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