Robert M. Haig

Robert Murray Haig (1887 – 1953) was an American economist regarded as an expert in public finance and taxation. The concept of Haig–Simons income bears his name.[1]

Haig graduated with a PhD in economics from Columbia University in 1914, with a thesis written under supervision of Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Gruber, Jonathan (2004). Public Finance and Public Policy. Macmillan. pp. 498–99.
  2. ↑ Mehrotra, Ajay K. (2013). Making the Modern American Fiscal State: Law, Politics, and the Rise of Progressive Taxation, 1877–1929. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 389–396. ISBN 978-1-107-43600-8.
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