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Hugo Richard Meyer

American author and economist

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Hugo Richard Meyer
Born	(1866-04-01)April 1, 1866 Cincinnati, Ohio
Died	1923 (aged 56–57)
Alma mater	Harvard 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[edit]

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[edit]

• 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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References[edit]

• "Meyer, Hugo Richard". Who's who in the world, 1912. The International Who's Who Publishing Co. 1911. p. 773.
• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Meyer, Hugo Richard" . Encyclopedia Americana.

External links[edit]

• Works by Hugo Richard MeyeratProject Gutenberg