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Davis Rich Dewey | |
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| Born | April 7, 1858  |
| Died | December 13, 1942 (aged 84) |
Davis Rich Dewey (April 7, 1858 – December 13, 1942) was an Americaneconomist andstatistician.
He was born atBurlington, Vermont. Like his well-known younger brother,John Dewey, he was educated at theUniversity of Vermont andJohns Hopkins University. He later became professor ofeconomics andstatistics at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology. He was chairman of theMassachusetts state board on the question of theunemployed (1895), member of the Massachusetts commission on public, charitable, and reformatory interests (1897), special expert agent on wages for the 12thcensus, and member of a state commission (1904) on industrial relations.[1]
Dewey became managing editor of theAmerican Economic Review in 1911. He wrote and published:
The library of theMIT Sloan School of Management, MIT Department of Economics, and MIT Department of Political Science is named after Dewey.{[2]}
One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Dewey, Davis Rich".Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 139.