Roland Post Falkner

Roland Post Falkner (April 14, 1866 – November 27, 1940) was an American economist and statistician.

Biography Robert P. Falkner was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut on April 14, 1866.

He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton School of Finance and Economy) in 1885; studied economics at Berlin, Leipzig and Halle-on-Saale, Germany; studied at the Collège de France; was instructor in accounting and statistics in the University of Pennsylvania in 1888–91, and professor of statistics 1891–1900.

He served also as statistician of the United States Senate Committee of Finance in 1891; as secretary of the United States delegation to the International Monetary Conference in Brussels; and as secretary of that conference in 1892.

He died at Memorial Hospital in New York on November 27, 1940.

Works

He is author of numerous essays on criminology, sociology, etc. to economic, statistical and other journals; and was editor of Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 1890–1900. He published a translation of August Meitzen's History, Theory, and Technique of Statistics (1893).