Francis Amasa Walker
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Francis Amasa Walker was an American economist, statistician, journalist, educator, academic administrator, and an officer in the Union Army.
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Walker's father, Amasa Walker, was a prominent economist and politician in Massachusetts.
Walker as an assistant assistant adjutant general in the II Army Corps.
Walker as a professor of Political Economy at the Sheffield Scientific School
Walker as President of MIT
An 1889 photogravure of the two MIT campus buildings in Back Bay; the 1865 building is in the foreground, with the 1883 building in the background
Walker later in life
Walker Memorial housed a gymnasium, student lounge, and commons room when it opened in 1916.In their orbit 1
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About this person
Francis Amasa Walker was an American economist, statistician, journalist, educator, academic administrator, and an officer in the Union Army. As a prolific author and the third president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) until his death in 1897, Walker was a leading political economist and advocate for a policy of bimetallism by international agreement. His scholarly contributions are widely recognized as having broadened, liberalized, and modernized economic and statistical theory with contributions to wages, wealth distribution, money, and social economics, and he is credited with developing the residual theory of wage distribution.
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