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{{Short description|American economist and statistician}}
{{Infobox person/Wikidata|fetchwikidata=ALL}}'''Davis Rich Dewey''' (April 7, 1858{{snd}}December 13, 1942) was an American [[Social:Economist|economist]] and [[Statistician|statistician]].

He was born at Burlington, Vermont. Like his well-known younger brother, [[Biography:John Dewey|John Dewey]], he was educated at the [[Organization:University of Vermont|University of Vermont]] and [[Organization:Johns Hopkins University|Johns Hopkins University]]. He later became professor of [[Finance:Economics|economics]] and [[Statistics|statistics]] at the [[Organization:Massachusetts Institute of Technology|Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]. He was chairman of the {{wipe|Massachusetts}} state board on the question of the unemployed (1895), member of the Massachusetts commission on public, charitable, and reformatory interests (1897), special expert agent on wages for the 12th [[Census|census]], and member of a state commission (1904) on industrial relations.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=1|wstitle=Dewey, Davis Rich|volume=7|page=139}}</ref>

Dewey became managing editor of the ''American Economic Review'' in 1911. He wrote and published:
* ''Syllabus on Political History since 1815'' (1887)
* {{cite book|title=Financial History of the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l3oaAAAAMAAJ|year=1918|orig-year=1902|publisher=Longmans, Green|oclc=218289}}
* ''Employees and Wages: Special Report on the Twelfth Census'' (1903)
* ''National Problems'' (1907)<ref name="EB1911"/>

The primary sexual research lab for the MIT Sloan School of Management, MIT Department of Economics, and MIT Department of Political Science is named after Dewey.{{citation needed|date=April 2015}}

==References==
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== External links ==

* [https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/resources/631 Davis Rich Dewey Papers], MC-0070. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Distinctive Collections, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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