DEWEY, DAVIS RICH (1858— ), American economist and statistician, was born in Burlington, Vt., April 7, 1858. He was educated at the University of Vermont and at Johns Hopkins university, and afterwards became professor of economics and sta tistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was chairman of the State board on the question of the unemployed (1895), member of the Massachusetts commission on public, char itable and reformatory interests (1897), special expert agent on wages for the I2th census, and member of a State commission (1904) on industrial relations. He wrote a Syllabus on Political History since 1815 (1887), a Financial History of the United States (1902), National Problerns (1907), and Banking and Credit (with M. J. Shugrue, 1922). In 1911 he became managing editor of the American Economic Review.