Front Page Authors (by Period) Frank William Taussig

Frank William Taussig

1859 - 1940

About the Author

Frank W. Taussig (1859-1940), American economist, taught at Harvard, and worked on international trade. His articles and books on tariffs, both in theory and in careful empirical studies of industries and history, became the foundation of how modern trade theory is taught today. He was editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics.

In The Library:

• author: Some Aspects of the Tariff Question (1915)
• editor: State Papers and Speeches on the Tariff (1790)
• author: “Tariff” (1911)

Quotations:

• Frank Taussig argues for the reverse of a common misconception about the relationship between high wages and the use of machinery (1915) (12 January, 2010)