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William Amasa Scott
William
Amasa
Scott
was an
American
economist
and one of the leading representatives of the
marginalist school
.
Born
in
Clarkson, New York
, he received his B.A. from the
University of Rochester
in
1886
, and his PhD under
supervision
of
Richard
T.
Ely
from
Johns Hopkins University
in
1892
. Scott was a
professor
of
Political Economy
at the
University of Wisconsin–Madison
until
1931
, and a
contributor
to
John
Kells
Ingram’s
A
History of Political Economy
.