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Witte was Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin (1933–57), President of the American Economic Association (1955), first President of the Industrial Relations Research Association (1948), and Chief of the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Service (1922–33). His primary field was labour and social legislation. A student of John R. Commons, he was an institutional economist and a pragmatic social reformer.
This chapter was originally published in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, 2008. Edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume
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Anon. 1960. Edwin E. Witte (1887–1960). Father of social security. Industrial and Labor Relations Review 14 (1): 7–9.
Schlabach, T.F. 1969. Edwin E. Witte: Cautious reformer. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
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Cohen, W. (2008). Witte, Edwin Emil (1887–1960). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_1376-2
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