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Scholar, teacher, monetary reformer and university administrator, Laughlin was born in Deerfield, Ohio of middle-class parents of modest means. A scholarship plus outside work, largely tutoring, enabled him to attend Harvard. After completing his undergraduate study in history, he did graduate work under Henry Adams, receiving a Ph.D. for a thesis on ‘The Anglo-Saxon Legal Procedure’. His subsequent academic career, however, was entirely in economics.
This chapter was originally published in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, 2008. Edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume
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Friedman, M. (2008). Laughlin, James Laurence (1850–1933). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_802-2
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