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

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and

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. He was born at

Burlington, Vermont Burlington is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Vermont and the seat of Chittenden County. It is located south of the Canada–United States border and south of Montreal. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the population was 44,743. It ...

. Like his well-known younger brother,

John Dewey John Dewey (; October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the f ...

, he was educated at the

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and

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...

. He later became professor of

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at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

. 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 primary library for 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