The New International Encyclopædia/Scott, William Amasa

SCOTT, William Amasa (1862— ). An American economist, born in Clarkson, Monroe County, N. Y., and educated at the University of Rochester, with a post-graduate course in Johns Hopkins University (1890-92). He had taught political economy in the University of South Dakota from 1887 to 1890. and, on leaving Johns Hopkins, where he had acted as instructor in history, became assistant professor of economics in the University of Wisconsin, was titular professor from 1897 to 1900, and then director of the School of Commerce and professor of economic history and theory. His publications include Repudiation of State Debts (1893) and ''Reports'' of State Committees of Wisconsin.