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Frank H. Dixon, 1869-1944.

American Institutionalist, expert on railroads and transportation economics at Dartmouth and Princeton

Frank Haigh Dixon was born in Winona, Minnesota. Dixon studied at the University of Michigan, obtaining his BA in 1892.  He stayed on to obtain his Ph.D. from Michigan  in 1895, under historicist Henry C. Adams, writing his dissertation on state regulation of railroads.  Dixon subsequently undertook an academic year in Germany, studying at the University of Berlin, then a bastion of the German Historical School.  

Upon his return to the US, Dixon lectured at Michigan, until joining the faculty of Dartmouth College in 1898.  Dixon was instrumental in setting up the Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth in 1900, and served as its first secretary.  Dixon was promoted to full professor in the Dartmouth economics department in 1903, and subsequently resigned from his Tuck position in 1904.

Frank H. Dixon made a name for himself as an expert on railway transportation and corporate finance.

F.H. Dixon left Dartmouth in 1919, to join the faculty at Princeton. He chaired the economics department at Princeton from 1922 to 1927. Dixon retired in 1938.

 

  

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Major Works of Frank H. Dixon

  • State Railroad Control, 1896
  • "Recent Railway Legislation in Kansas", 1899, QJE (Apr) p.336 [js]
  • "Review of Weld's Private Freight Cars", 1908, Econ Bulletin (Sep), p.203 [js]
  • "Review of Fagan's Confessions of a Railroad Signalman",  1908, Econ Bulletin (Dec), p.348 [js]
  • "Review of Hepburn's Artificial Waterways", 1909, Econ Bulletin (Apr), p.38 [js]
  • "Review of Peyton's American Transportation Problem", 1909, Econ Bulletin (Apr), p.39 [js]
  • "Review of Marriott's Fixing of Rates and Fares",  1909, Econ Bulletin (Apr), p.40 [js]
  • "Round Table: Water Transportation in This Country",  1909, Pub AEA (Apr), p.275 [js]
  •  "Review of Proceedings of convention on Atlantic Deeper Waterways",  1909, Econ Bulletin (Jun), p.135 [js]
  • "Review of Report of Commissioner of Water Transportation",  1909, Econ Bulletin (Dec), p.359 [js]
  • "Review of ER Johnson's Elements of Transportation", 1909, Econ Bulletin (Dec), p.360 [js]
  • "Review of JH Morrison's History of New York Shipyards", 1909, Econ Bulletin (Dec), p.361 [js]
  • "Review of Wilson's Safety of British Railways", 1909, Econ Bulletin (Dec), p.361 [js]
  • "Review of AC Sutcliffe's Robert Fulton", 1909, Econ Bulletin (Dec), p.362 [js]
  • "Review of AC Sutcliffe's Robert Fulton", 1909, Econ Bulletin (Dec), p.362 [js]
  • "Review of Y. Guyot's La Crise des Transports", 1909, Econ Bulletin (Dec), p.363 [js]
  • "Review of EA Pratt's German Railways", 1909, Econ Bulletin (Dec), p.363 [js]
  • "Review of Going Methods of Santa Fe", 1909, Econ Bulletin (Dec), p.364 [js]
  • "Review of Potts's Railroad Transportation in Texas",  1910, Econ Bulletin (Mar),  p.37 [js]
  • "Review of Fagan's Labor and the Railroads", 1910, Econ Bulletin (Mar), p.41 [js]
  • "Review of Wayland's Historical Review of Waterways and Canal Construction in New York State", 1910, Econ Bulletin (Jun),  p.160 [js]
  •  "The Railroad Situation: An Appraisal", 1921, AER (May) p.5 [js]

 
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Resources on  Frank H. Dixon

  • "Review of Dixon's State Railroad Control", by Emory R. Johnson, 1896, AAPSS (Jul) p.178 [js]
  • "Review of Dixon's Tariff History of the Mississippi River System", by Bauer, 1910, Econ Bulletin (Jun), p.158 [js]
  • "Obituary: Frank Haigh Dixon" in Princeton Alumni Weekly, 1944 [article]
  • "Dixon, FH" at New International Encyclopedia
  • Dixon online books page at Penn.
  • FH Dixon entry at find-a-grave.

 

 
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