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Fetter was born on 3 March 1863 in the town of Peru, Indiana, and died on 21 March 1949 in Princeton, New Jersey. He was educated at Indiana and Cornell Universities and received his doctorate in economics at the University of Halle in Germany in 1894; he spent most of his life teaching at Cornell (1901–1911) and Princeton universities (1911–1934).
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Rothbard, M.N. (2018). Fetter, Frank Albert (1863–1949). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_551
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