Hugo Richard Meyer (April 1, 1866 – 1923) was an American author and economist concerned with public ownership of telegraph, phone, railway and other utilities.
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Born | |
Died | 1923 (aged 56–57) |
Alma mater | Harvard College |
Occupation(s) | Economist, writer |
Biography
editMeyer graduated from Harvard College in 1892, and attended the Harvard Graduate School in 1892-96 where he received an A.M. in 1894. He was instructor in political economy at Harvard in 1897-1903, and was assistant professor in that subject at the University of Chicago in 1904-05. After 1907, he resided in Melbourne where he was writing a history of state ownership in Victoria, Australia.[1]
Works
edit- Government Regulation of Railroad Rates (1905)
- Municipal Ownership in Great Britain (1906)
- The British State Telegraphs: A Study of the Problem of a Large Body of Civil Servants in a Democracy. Macmillan. 1907.
- Public Ownership and the Telephone in Great Britain: Restriction of the Industry by the State and the Municipalities. Macmillan. 1907.
- "Hugo Richard Meyer". JSTOR.
Notes
editThis article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. (July 2013) |
- ^ "Harvard Graduate Alumnus, Hugo Richard Meyer in 1912". May 21, 2015.
References
edit- "Meyer, Hugo Richard". Who's who in the world, 1912. The International Who's Who Publishing Co. 1911. p. 773.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). . Encyclopedia Americana.