DEWEY

dewey, davis rich (1858- ), american economist and statistician, was born at burlington, vermont, u.s.a., on the 7th of april 1858. he was educated at the university of vermont and at johns hopkins university, and afterwards became professor of economics and statistics at the massachusetts institute of technology. he was chairman of the state board on the question of the unemployed (1895), member of the massachusetts commission on public, charitable and reformatory interests (1897), special expert agent on wages for the 12th census, and member of a state commission (1904) on industrial relations. he wrote an excellent _syllabus on political history since 1815_ (1887), a _financial history of the u.s._ (1902), and _national problems_ (1907).