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Thomas S. Adams, 1873-1933.

Fiscal expert at Yale.

Thomas Sewall Adams obtained his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins in 1899, and, after a brief stint as assistant treasurer in Puerto Rico, joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin in 1901, brought in by Richard T. Ely.  Later, T.S. Adams became professor of economics at Yale in 1916.

Thomas S. Adams was a frequent government advisor. A quintessential progressive, T.S. Adams's work on the Wisconsin Tax Commission led him to become an advisor on tax policy to the Treasury under Woodrow Wilson during WWI, and serve as chairman of the national tax advisory board in the aftermath. 

 

  

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Major Works of Thomas S. Adams

  • "Taxation in Maryland", 1900, in J.H. Hollander, editor, Studies in State Taxation, p.13
  • "Index Numbers and the Standard of Value", 1901, JPE, p.1 [offp]
  • Labor Problems: a text-book, with H.L. Sumner, 1905 [bk] [1908 ed] [1913 ed], [1921 ed]
  • Outlines of Economics with R.T. Ely, M.A. Lorenz and A.A. Young (from 1908) [bk]
  • The Sales Tax, 1920
  • Needed Tax Reform in the United States, 1920
  • "Fundamental Problems of Federal Income Taxation", 1921, QJE, p.527 [js, av]
  • "Tax Revision Requirements", 1921, Credit Monthly, p.21
  • "When is income realized?", 1921, Federal Income Tax, p.29
  • Manual of Charting, 1923.

 
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