William Amasa Scott (April 17, 1862 in Clarkson, New York[1]–1944) was an American economist and one of the leading representatives of the marginalist school.[2]
He received his B.A. from the University of Rochester in 1886, and his PhD under supervision of Richard T. Ely from Johns Hopkins University in 1892.[3] Scott was a professor of Political Economy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison until 1931, and a contributor to John Kells Ingram’s A History of Political Economy.[4]
- ^ Scott, William Amasa in Who's Who in America (1901-1902 edition), via archive.org
- ^ Stark, Werner (1994). History and Historians of Political Economy. Transaction. p. 162. ISBN 9781412825160.
- ^ "William A. Scott, 1862-1942". HET: History of Economic Thought.
- ^ Morton, Walter A. (1945). "William A. Scott 1862–1944". American Economic Review. 35 (4): 786–787. JSTOR 1809430.
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