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Richmond Mayo-Smith, 1854-1901.

Early American historicist economist and statistician at Columbia.

Trained by German Historicists at Heidelburg and Berlin, Mayo-Smith fame was part of the wave of "New Generation" economists of the 1880s.  Richard Mayo-Smith was the first economist appointed to Columbia's School of Political Science (f.1880).    In 1887, Mayo-Smith was made the first full professor of political economy at Columbia.   A half-hearted economist, Mayo-Smith preferred to concentrate on teaching statistical methods to Columbia students.  His reputation rests in his pioneering role as a social statistician. 

 

  


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Major Works of Richmond Mayo-Smith

  • "American Labor Statistics", 1886, PSQ, (Mar), p.45 [js]
  • "Review of A.T. Hadley''s Railroad Transportation and J.L. Laughlin's Bimetallism", 1886, PSQ, (Mar), p.141 [js]
  • "Review of Annual Reports of the Bureau of Labor Statistics", 1886, PSQ, (Jun), p.336 [js]
  • "Review of Giffen's Essays in Finance", 1886, PSQ, (Jun), p.337 [js]
  • "The National Bureau of Labor, and Industrial Depressions", 1886, PSQ, (Sep),  p.437 [js]
  • "Review of Wagner's Finanzwissenschaft", 1886, PSQ, (Dec), p.680 [js]
  • "Review of Leon Say's Solutions Democratiques de la Question des Impots", 1886, PSQ, (Dec), p.681 [js]
  • "Review of Reports of Industrial Statistics of Maryland and BLS", 1886, PSQ, (Sep), p.516 [js]
  • "Review of H.C. Adams's Public Debts", 1887, PSQ (Jun),  p.349 [js]
  • "Review of Meitzen's Statistik", 1887, PSQ (Sep), p.514 [js]
  •  "Review of Emigrant and Immigration Reports", 1887, PSQ (Sep), p.520 [js]
  • "Control of Immigration. I.", 1888, PSQ (Mar),  p.46 [js]
  • "Review of Das Schweizerische Auswanderungswesen", 1888, PSQ (Mar), p.192 [js]
  • "Review of Bulletin de l'Institut International de Statistique", 1888, PSQ (Mar), p.194 [js]
  • "Control of Immigration. II", 1888, PSQ (Jun), p.197 [js]
  • "Review of Heinrich Braun's Archiv fur Soziale Gesetzgebung und Statistik (AfSGS)" 1888, PSQ (Jun), p.367 [js]
  • "Review of CD Wright's Census of Massachusetts of 1885 and Report of the BSL" 1888, PSQ (Jun), p.368 [js]
  • "Control of Immigration, III", 1888, PSQ (Sep), p.409 [js]
  •  "Review of Pidgin's Practical Statistics", 1888, PSQ (Sep), p.547 [js]
  • "Statistics and Economics: outline of statistical science with especial reference to the use of statistics in political economy and social science", 1888, Pub AEA (Sep-Nov) p.237, [js]
  • "Review of Report of Commissioner of Labor on Strikes and Lockouts", 1888, PSQ (Dec), p.709 [js]
  • "Review of Lords' Committee Report on the Sweating System", 1889, PSQ (Mar), p.186 [js]
  • "Review of Reports of Committee on Emigration and Chinese Immigration to Austalasian Colonies", 1889, PSQ (Mar), p.186 [js]
  • "Review of Publications of the American Statistical Association",  1889, PSQ (Jun), p.352 [js]
  • "Review of HR Committee on Importation of Contract Laborers", 1889, PSQ (Sep), p.529 [js]
  • "Review of Newsholme's Elements of Vital Statistics", 1889, PSQ (Dec),  p.698 [js]
  • "On Census Methods", 1890, PSQ (Jun),   p.259 [js]
  • "Review of Atkinson's Industrial Progress of the Nation", 1890, PSQ (Jun), p.330 [js]
  • "Review of Levasseur's Population Francaise", 1890, PSQ (Jun), p.336 [js]
  • "Review of Giffen's Growth of Capital", 1890, PSQ (Sep), p.531 [js]
  • "Review of Jannet's Socialisme d'Etat and Kohut's Ferdinand Lassalle", 1890, PSQ (Dec), p.719 [js] (on F. Lassalle)
  • "Review of Westergaard's Grundzuge der Theorie der Statistik", 1891, PSQ (Mar),  p.178 [js]
  • "Review of G. von Mayr's Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv", 1891, PSQ (Mar),  p.179 [js]
  • "Review of Leroy-Beaulieu's L'Etat Moderne", 1891, PSQ (Jun),  p.347 [js]
  • "Review of W. Graham's Socialism" 1891, PSQ (Dec),  p.746 [js]
  • "Review of Courcelle-Senueil's Société Moderne",  1892, PSQ (Dec), p.739 [js]
  • "Review of Turquand's Manuel de Statistique Pratique", 1892, PSQ (Dec), p.760 [js]
  • Review of British Reports of Royal Commissions on Depression and Trade, Employers' Liability Act, Cooperation in Foreign Country, Land Law in Ireland", 1887, PSQ (Jun), p.355 [js]
  • Emigration and Immigration: A study in social science, 1890 [1898 ed]
  • "Theories of Mixture of Races and Nationalities", 1894, Yale Review  p.166
  •  "Statistics as Instrument of Investigation in Sociology (abstract & discussion)", 1895, Pub AEA (Mar-Supp) p.103 [js]
  • Science of Statistics I: Statistics and Sociology, 1895 [bk] [1902 ed]
  • "Die Einwanderung in die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika", 1896, Schriften des Vereins f. Sozialpolitik, p.213
  • Science of Statistics II:  Statistics and Economics, 1899 [bk]
  • "Report of the Committee on the Scope and Method of the Twelfth Census (with abstracts)", 1899, AEA Econ Studies (Feb), p.45  (committee: W.F. Willcox, R. Mayo-Smith, C.D. Wright, R.P. Falkner & DR Dewey)
  • "Report of the Committee on the Scope and Method of the Twelfth Census", 1899, Pub AEA (ns 2, Mar), p.1 [js]{av]
  • "Statistics of Occupations", 1899, Pub AEA (ns 2, Mar), p.78 [js]

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Resources on Richmond Mayo-Smith

  • "Review of Mayo-Smith's Statistics and Sociology", by Roland P. Falkner, 1896, AAPSS, (Jan) p.131 [js]
  • "Review of Mayo-Smith's Statistics and Economics", by Roland P. Falkner,1900, AAPSS (Jan), p.108 [js]
  • Wikipedia

 

 
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