Adolph Wagner (March 25, 1835 - November 8, 1917) was a German economist and politician, a leading Kathedersozialist (academic socialist) and public finance scholar; Wagner's Law of increasing state activity is named after him.
Born in Erlangen as the son of a university professor, the physiologist Rudolf Wagner, Adolph studied economics at the University of Göttingen, receiving a doctorate in 1857. Wagner’s academic career took him first to the ...
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Adolph Wagner (March 25, 1835 - November 8, 1917) was a German economist and politician, a leading Kathedersozialist (academic socialist) and public finance scholar; Wagner's Law of increasing state activity is named after him.
Born in Erlangen as the son of a university professor, the physiologist Rudolf Wagner, Adolph studied economics at the University of Göttingen, receiving a doctorate in 1857. Wagner’s academic career took him first to the Merchants’ Superior School, Vienna (1858-1863), then – after failing to secure a chair at the University of Vienna because of disagreements over fiscal policy with Lorenz von Stein – to the Hamburg Higher Merchants’ School (1863-1865), both institutions comparable to business schools today. In 1865, he took the chair of Ethnography, Geography, and Statistics (in reality an economics professorship) at the University of Dorpat in Livonia.
In Dorpat (Tartu), Wagner "became a follower of Bismarck’s policy for unifying Germany under Prussian...
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