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Johnson (ALVIN SAUNDERS an American)

ALVIN SAUNDERS, an American economist and writer; born near Homer, Neb., in 1874. He graduated, University of Nebraska, in 1897 and took post-graduate courses in Columbia. From 1902 to 1906 he was instructor and adjunct professor of economics at Columbia University. From 1906 to 1908 he was professor of economics at the University of Nebraska and in 1908 occupied the same chair at the University of Texas. In 1910 he was appointed associate professor of becoming full professor in 1911. From 1912 to 1916 he was professor of economics at Cornell University and from 1916 to 1918 at Leland Stanford University. From 1917 he was one of the editors of the "New Republic" and contributed much to encyclopedias on economic subjects and wrote "Rent in Modern Economic Theory" (1903); "Introduction to Economics" (1909); "The Professor and the Petticoat" (1914).