About Hugo Richard Meyer
Lived 1866 – 1923 (aged 56–57). Hugo Richard Meyer was an American economist and 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 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.
Works Government Regulation of Railroad Rates (1905) Municipal Ownership in Great Britain (1906)
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American economist (1866–1923)
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Hugo Richard Meyer was born on 1 April 1866 in Cincinnati.
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Hugo Richard Meyer died in 1923.
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Hugo Richard Meyer was an economist and writer.
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