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Ross (EDWARD ALSWORTH an American)

EDWARD ALSWORTH, an American economist, born at Virden, Ill., in 1866. He graduated from Coe College in 1886 and took post-graduate studies at the University of Berlin and at Johns Hopkins. ns. In 1891-2 he was professor of economics at Indiana University, and in 1892-3 was associate professor of political economy and finance at Cornell. He became professor of sociology in Leland Stanford Jr. University in 1893; he occupied the same chair at the University of Nebraska (1901-6). In 1906 he was professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin. He lectured on sociology at Harvard, Chicago, and other universities. His works on economic subjects include "Honest Dollars" (1896); "Social Control" (1901); "Sin and Society" (1907); "The Changing Chinese" (1911); "Changing America" (1912); "The Old World in the New" (1914); "Russia in Upheaval" (1918); and "What Is America?" (1919).