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Taussig was born on 28 December 1859 in St Louis, Missouri, and died on 11 November 1940 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After starting college at Washington University, St Louis, he transferred to Harvard University, where he received the BA (1879), Ph.D. (1883) and LLB (1886). He also studied at the University of Berlin.
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Samuels, W.J. (2018). Taussig, Frank William (1859–1940). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_1808
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