Edward S. Mason

Edward Sagendorph Mason was born on February 22, 1899, in Clinton, Iowa. His younger brother was Warren P. Mason, who became an electrical engineer and physicist. He graduated from the University of Kansas in 1919. He entered Harvard University, where he was a Rhodes scholar at the University of Oxford during his master's degree. He earned a PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1925. His thesis supervisor was Frank William Taussig. ==Career==

Mason taught a course on the history of socialism in the Department of Economics at his alma mater, Harvard University, in the 1920s and 1930s. He became a tenured professor in 1936. He was the dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration, now known as the John F. Kennedy School of Government, from 1947 to 1958. He became known for his work in industrial organization, an area in which provided direct inspiration to Joe Bain for his SCP model, and in development economics. ==Personal life and death==

Mason married Marguerite Sisson La Monte on April 4, 1930. They had two sons and a daughter. Mason died on February 29, 1992, in Santa Barbara, California. == Selected works ==

• Mason, E. (1926) The doctrine of comparative cost. Quarterly Journal of Economics 41, November 63–93. • == References ==