The Rise of Academic Economists before World War I
Published Date
Copyright 2013
ISBN 9780226256610

The rise of academic economists to their current prominence in public life did not happen overnight. This chapter describes some aspects of the evolution of the economics profession in the United States and the large role played by academic economists in the design of the welfare state.
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Copy CitationRobert William Fogel, Mark Guglielmo, and Nathaniel Grotte, Political Arithmetic: Simon Kuznets and the Empirical Tradition in Economics (University of Chicago Press, 2013), chap. 1, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/political-arithmetic-simon-kuznets-and-empirical-tradition-economics/rise-academic-economists-world-war-i.