Davis Rich Dewey (April 7, 1858December 13, 1942) was an American

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and

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. He was born at

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. Like his well-known younger brother,

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, he was educated at the

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and

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. He later became professor of

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and

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at the

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. He was chairman of the

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state board on the question of the

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(1895), member of the Massachusetts commission on public, charitable, and reformatory interests (1897), special expert agent on wages for the 12th

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, and member of a state commission (1904) on industrial relations. Dewey became managing editor of the ''American Economic Review'' in 1911. He wrote and published: * ''Syllabus on Political History since 1815'' (1887) * * ''Employees and Wages: Special Report on the Twelfth Census'' (1903) * ''National Problems'' (1907) The library of the

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, MIT Department of Economics, and MIT Department of Political Science is named after Dewey.

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External links

Davis Rich Dewey Papers
MC-0070. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Distinctive Collections, Cambridge, Massachusetts. {{DEFAULTSORT:Dewey, Davis Rich 1858 births 1942 deaths American statisticians American economics writers American male non-fiction writers Writers from Burlington, Vermont University of Vermont alumni Johns Hopkins University alumni Presidents of the American Economic Association Economics journal editors Economists from Vermont American Economic Review editors