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Edwin Seligman

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Edwin Seligman · Economics & Business

What

Economist

When

1861, New York City, United States — 1939, Lake Placid, New York, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Edwin Seligman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Economist

How & why

Edwin R. A. Seligman was an American economist at Columbia University, a founder of the American Economic Association, and a leading authority on public finance and taxation whose advocacy helped shape the modern progressive income tax. He also edited the Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences. Seligman was Jewish, born into the prominent Seligman German Jewish banking family in New York.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Economists