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ATKINSON, EDWARD (18271905)

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 852 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ARN-AUD
ATKINSON, EDWARD (18271905) , American economist, was born at Brookline,
Massachusetts
 , on the loth of February 1827. For many years he was engaged in managing various business enterprises, and became, in 1877, president of the Boston Manufacturers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company, a post which he held till his death. He was a strong controversialist and a prolific writer on such economic subjects as banking, railways,
cotton
  manufacture, the tariff and free
trade
 , and the money question. He was appointed in 1887 a
special
 
commissioner
  to report upon the status of bimetallism in Europe. He also made a
special
  study of mill construction and fire prevention, and invented an improved cooking apparatus, called the " Aladdin oven." He was an active supporter of
anti
 -imperialism. He died at Boston on the r rth of December 1905.
His
principal
  works were Right Methods of Preventing Fires in Mills (1881); Distribution of Products (1885); Industrial Progress of the Nation (1889) ; Taxation and
Work
  (1892) ; Science. of Nutrition (loth ed., 1898).


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