William Amasa Scott

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]

Bibliography

• Scott, William A. (1908). "Rates on the New York Money Market, 1896-1906". Journal of Political Economy. 16 (5): 273–98. doi:10.1086/251433. JSTOR 1820296.
• William A. Scott (1911). "The Administration and Control of the Proposed Central Reserve Association". Journal of Political Economy. 19 (10): 841–55. doi:10.1086/251938. JSTOR 1820331.
• Scott, William A. (1922). "Popular and Unpopular Activities of the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 99 (1): 203–09. doi:10.1177/000271622209900129. JSTOR 1014531. S2CID 144008673.
• William Amasa Scott (1893). The Repudiation of State Debts. T.Y. Crowell & Company.
• William Amasa Scott (1916). Money and Banking. H. Holt.