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Hugo Richard Meyer

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Hugo Richard Meyer
Born(1866-04-01)April 1, 1866
Died1923 (aged 56–57)
Alma materHarvard College
Occupation(s)Economist, writer

Hugo Richard Meyer (April 1, 1866 – 1923) was an American author and economist concerned with public ownership of telegraph, phone, railway and other utilities.

Biography

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Meyer graduated from Harvard College in 1892, and attended the Harvard Graduate School in 1892-96 where he received an A.M. in 1894. He was instructor in political economy at Harvard in 1897-1903, and was assistant professor in that subject at the University of Chicago in 1904-05. After 1907, he resided in Melbourne where he was writing a history of state ownership in Victoria, Australia.[1]

Works

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  • Government Regulation of Railroad Rates (1905)
  • Municipal Ownership in Great Britain (1906)
  • The British State Telegraphs: A Study of the Problem of a Large Body of Civil Servants in a Democracy. Macmillan. 1907.
  • Public Ownership and the Telephone in Great Britain: Restriction of the Industry by the State and the Municipalities. Macmillan. 1907.
  • "Hugo Richard Meyer". JSTOR.

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