Edwin Seligman
Edwin Seligman · Economics & Business
Economist
1861, New York City, United States — 1939, Lake Placid, New York, United States
United States
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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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