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Spiethoff was born on 13 May 1873 in Düsseldorf and died on 4 April 1957 in Tübingen. He was a student of Adolph Wagner and research assistant to Gustav Schmoller. In 1908 he was appointed professor at Prague University and from 1918 held a chair of political economy at Bonn University until his retirement in 1939. He was the long-time editor of Schmollers Jahrbuch and (with Edgar Salin) of Handund Lehrbücher aus dem Gebiet der Sozialwissenschaften.
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Barens, I. (2018). Spiethoff, Arthur August Kaspar (1873–1957). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_1799
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