Seligman
EDWIN ROBERT AN- DERSON, an American educator; born in New York City, April 25, 1861; was graduated at Columbia University in 1879; then studied abroad; became Professor of Political Economy and Finance at Columbia University in 1891; editor of the Political Science Quarterly. He was a member of New York Mayor's Tax and Finance Committee, 1905; President of Roosevelt's Committee on Statistics and Reorganization, 1908; Chairman of trustees, Bureau of Municipal Research, 1905- 1910: President, Am. Science Ass'n and of National Tax Association. His publications include "Railway Tariffs" (1887); "Finance Statistics of American Commonwealths" (1889); "The Shifting and Incidence of Taxation" (1899); "Progressive Taxation in Theory and Practice" (1894); "Essays in Taxation" (1900); "Principles of Economics" (1919).