Frank Taussig

Frank William Taussig was an American economist who taught at Harvard for nearly half a century and is regarded as a founder of modern international trade theory; his 1911 textbook 'Principles of Economics' and long editorship of the Quarterly Journal of Economics trained a generation of economists. His father, William Taussig, was a Prague-born émigré of Jewish descent, giving Frank documented Jewish ancestry on his father's side; his mother was of Protestant background.