A Wisconsin Austrian: William Amasa Scott

Charles McCann

A chapter in Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology: Including a Symposium on Frank Knight's Risk, Uncertainty and Profit at 100, 2021, vol. 39C, pp 121-146 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: William Amasa Scott was in his time well-known as a monetary economist as well as a popularizer of economic ideas, whose opinions were widely regarded by the public. A proponent of Austrian economics and defender of classical economic theory, he soon found a home at the School of Economics, Political Science and History (later the School of Economics) at the University of Wisconsin which, while initially a mainstream department, would evolve into the citadel of Institutional Economics. Notwithstanding his status as an authority on monetary economics and his place as a public intellectual, he remained at the University something of an outsider throughout his career and today is largely forgotten.

Keywords: William Amasa Scott; Austrian economics; University of Wisconsin; monetary economics; state debt repudiation; B13; B25; B31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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