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Adolph Wagner ( 25 March , 1835 - November 8 , 1917 ), was a German economist and social reformer, a leading '''''Kathedersozialist''''' and ' Public Finance scholar; Wagner's Law of increasing State activity is named after him. BIOGRAPHY Born in Erlangen as the son of a university professor, the physiologist Rudolf Wagner , Adolph studied Economics at the University Of Göttingen , receiving a doctorate in 1857 . Wagner’s academic career took him first to the Merchants’ Superior School , Vienna ( 1858 - 1863 ), then – after failing to secure a chair at the University Of Vienna because of disagreements over Fiscal Policy with Lorenz Von Stein – to the Hamburg Higher Merchants’ School ( 1863 - 1865 ), both institutions comparable to business schools today. In 1865 , he took the chair of Ethnography , Geography , and Statistics (in reality an economics professorship) at the University Of Tartu in what is today Estonia . In Tartu , Wagner "became a follower of Bismarck ’s policy for unifying Germany under Prussian guidance. (Rubner, 435) Thus, when German Unification became realistic, Wagner wanted to go back to Germany proper – a general attitude of Imperial Germans in the Baltics . Beginning Fall Term 1868/69, Wagner therefore took over the Chair of the Cameralistic subjects (roughly, state management) at the Grand Duke of Badenian University Of Freiburg im Breisgau, and very soon afterwards, in 1870 , the Chair of '' Staatswissenschaften '' at the University Of Berlin , by that time not only the premier university in Germany but probably in the world. It was in Berlin that Wagner unfolded his tenure as one of the intellectually and politically most influential economists of his time. Wagner died in Berlin in 1917 . WORK Wagner is the main protagonist of a specific school of economics and social policy, called "State Socialism" ("''Staatssozialismus''"), which is a specific form of ''Kathedersozialismus''. ( Albert Schäffle (1831-1903) and Karl Rodbertus (-Jagetzow) (1805-1875) were important protagonists of that thought as well.) He was emphatically not a member of the Historical School , however, which so many of his colleagues – such as Gustav Von Schmoller and Lujo Brentano – were. CHARACTER Wagner was a very combative and harsh personality who did not take insults lightly and who never phrased things diplomatically. As was mentioned, he had difficulties with Schmoller and was an enemy of Lujo Brentano – and these two were about his closest colleagues. It is by all contemporary accounts probably fair to say that Wagner must have been vain, easily hurt, and extremely choleric. In the 1890s, Wagner would so enrage an industrial-conservative member of the '' Reichstag '', likewise with a defense of the ''Kathedersozialist'' influence within the University, that that deputy challenged him to a duel. Wagner did not categorically refuse, but it was never fought.) An even more famous case was Wagner’s altercation with Eugen Dühring (against whom Friedrich Engels ' '' Anti-Dühring '' is directed), and which in the very end resulted in Dühring's Remotion and dismissal from the University Of Berlin . LIFE Together with Gustav Von Schmoller , Adolph Wagner belongs to the most important economists of the Bismarck period. He was a member of the '' Verein Für Socialpolitik '' (Society for Social Policy). Wagner formulated the Law Of Increasing State Spending . His works have prepared the development of the monetary and credit system in Germany and substantially influenced the central bank policy and financial practice before World War I . KEY PUBLICATIONS By Wagner
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