Emory Richard Johnson (March 22, 1864 – March 8, 1950) was a
United States economist who specialized in transportation issues.
Biography
Johnson was born in
Waupun, Wisconsin
Waupun is a city in Dodge County, Wisconsin, Dodge and Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, Fond du Lac counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 11,344 at the 2020 census. Of this, 7,795 were in Dodge County, and 3,549 were in Fond du ...
.
[ ] He studied at
University of Wisconsin (1888) and
University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D., 1893). He was instructor of economics at
Haverford College
Haverford College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Haverford, Pennsylvania. It was founded as a men's college in 1833 by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), began accepting non-Quakers in 1849, and became coeducational ...
1893-96. He became professor of transportation and commerce at the University of Pennsylvania in 1896, and was dean of its
Wharton School from 1919 to 1933.
He served as expert on transportation (1899) on the
United States Industrial Commission, and was a member on valuation of railway property for the
United States Census Bureau (1904–05), and as expert on traffic on the National Waterways Commission of 1909. In 1911 he furnished a report on
Panama Canal traffic, etc., for U.S. President
William Howard Taft, and in 1907 arbitrated the dispute between the
Southern Pacific Company and the Order of Railroad Telegraphers. In 1926 he travelled to China; in Shandong he met the 6-year-old
Duke Yansheng Kung Te-cheng and invited him to attend the University of Pennsylvania. He was director of the Bureau of Municipal Research,
Philadelphia, and director of the Philadelphia Maritime Exchange. He died in
Philadelphia on March 8, 1950.
Works
*''Inland Waterways: Their Relation to Transportation'' (1893)
*''American Railway Transportation'' (1903)
*''Elements of Transportation'' (1906)
*''Railroad Traffic and Rates'' (1911)
*''Panama Canal Traffic and Tolls'' (1912)
*''Measurement of Vessels for the Panama Canal'' (1913)
*''The Panama Canal and Commerce'' (1916)
*''Principles of Railroad Transportation'' (1916)
He wrote many papers on the economics of railroads, etc. He was editor of the ''Annals'' of the
American Academy of Political and Social Science
The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) was founded in 1889 to promote progress in the social sciences. Sparked by Professor Edmund J. James and drawing from members of the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, Swarthmo ...
from 1901 to 1914.
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1864 births
1950 deaths
People from Waupun, Wisconsin
University of Pennsylvania alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
University of Pennsylvania faculty
Writers from Pennsylvania
Writers from Wisconsin
Economists from Wisconsin