The relation between local governmental expenditures and density of population in Massachusetts
By: by Tsung Chen
Series: Collections of the Harvard University Archives
Published: 1926
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Public Finance; Municipal finance; Population; Economic aspects; Public Expenditures; Statistics
Notes: Typewritten.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 1926.

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Daisun Chen (1900-1987) was a leading economist and known as father of modern economics education in China. Chen graduated from Tsinghua College in 1920, earned abachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin in 1922, and completed hisPhD in Economics at Harvard in 1926. Bertil Ohlin and Edward Chamberlin were among his contemporaries at Harvard. Chen returned to China in 1928. He served as professor of economics and chair of the economics department at Tsinghua University from 1928 to 1952. Harvard University alumni directories have him listed as Tsung D. Chen or Tsung Chen. His name has also been transliterated as Cong Chen. --Sources: Harvard University Archives; Harvard University. Quinquennial catalogue of the officers and graduates 1636-1930. (Cambridge : The University, 1930); 清华大学 (Tsinghua University) [web site] "Eric Maskin Gives Inaugural Speech of Chen Daisun Memorial Lecture in Economics" (http://cms.sem.tsinghua.edu.cn/semcms/News1/43560.htm, accessed 2014-12-01).