The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Robinson, Edward Van Dyke

ROBINSON, Edward Van Dyke, American economist: b. Bloomington, Ill., 20 Dec. 1867; d. 10 Dec. 1915. He was graduated at the University of Michigan in 1891 and took his Ph.D. at Leipzig in 1895. He was engaged in teaching and lecturing on commercial geography, physiography, economics and political science in 1895-1907; was appointed professor of economics at the University of Minnesota in 1907, and in 1915 accepted that chair at Columbia University. He was a contributor to scientific periodicals and was author of ‘Nature of the Federal State’ (1893); ‘War and Economics’ (1900); ‘Text Book on Commercial Geography’ (1909); ‘Cost of Government, National, State and Local’ (1912); ‘Economic Conditions and the Development of Agriculture in Minnesota’ (1915), etc.