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Salin was born in Frankfurt am Main of Jewish origin. He studied in Heidelberg with Max and Adolf Weber, Eberhard Gothein and others. He became a university lecturer in Heidelberg in 1919, and in 1927 he was appointed professor of political economy at the University of Basle (Switzerland).
This chapter was originally published in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, 1st edition, 1987. Edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman
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Schefold, B. (1987). Salin, Edgar (1892–1974). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_1631-1
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