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to Solomon and Lucy Hoxie, Hoxie obtained his PhD in economics at the University of Chicago. After graduation, he lectured at the University of Chicago until his early death in 1916. In the year 1914–1915 he served as special investigator in the U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations.

Selected publications

* Hoxie, Robert Franklin.
The demand and supply concepts
'' The University of Chicago press, 1906. * Hoxie, Robert Franklin.
Scientific management and labor
'' D. Appleton and Company, 1915; 1921. * Hoxie, Robert Franklin and Nathan Fine.
Trade unionism in the United States
'' D. Appleton and Company, 1919; 1921.

References

1868 births 1926 deaths American business theorists Economists from New York (state) People from Edmeston, New York University of Chicago alumni University of Chicago faculty Journal of Political Economy editors {{economist-stub