WALKER, FRANCIS AMASA (1840-97). A distinguished American economist, born in Bos ton. He was the son of .,Amara Walker (q.v.). He graduated at Amherst in 1860 and .entered upon the study of law. Soon after the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted, and he served until near the close of the war. During the greater part of the war he held the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and at the end of the war was brevetted a brigadier-general. From 1865 to 1868 he taught Latin and Greek at Williston Seminary; in 1868 he was on the staff of the Springfield Republican. In 1S69 he was placed in charge of the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department; in 1S70 he became super intendent of the Ninth Census, and in 1872 Com missioner of Indian Affairs. In 1873-81 he oc cupied the chair of political economy and his tory at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale, and in 1877-79 lie was lecturer at ,bolus Hopkins University. In 1878 he represented the United States at the Monetary Conference in Paris. lle was appointed superintendent of the Tenth United States .Census in 18R1, and in 1881 be came president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1882 to 1897 lie was pres ident of the American Statistical Association, and in 1885-92 was president of the American Economic Association. Ile was a member of
many other learned societies, both of America and Europe. Ile was a prolific writer, especially on evonotnic topics, and was one of the foremost advocates of international hi Ineta 11 is111. 1 n economic theory he is regarded as an original and powerful thinker, and his treatment of wages and profits has had a profound influence upon economic theory. The development of interest in evonomies in America is in a large measure the result of Walker's work. llis principal writ ings are The Indian Question (1874) ; The Ilages Question (1876) ; Money (1878) ; Money in Its Relation to Trade and Industry Political Economy (1883) ; Land and Its Rent (1883) ; History of the Second Army Corps (1886) ; Life of General Hancock (1891); The Making of the Nation (1895) ; and International (1896) . For biographical notices and an extended bibliography of Walker's works, consult Publications of the Americane. Statistical Association, vol. v. (Boston, 1896-97).