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Asher Hobson (born November 26, 1889, in Quenemo, Osage County, Kansas; died February 29, 1992, in Blue Mounds, Dane County, Wisconsin) was an American agricultural economist. [1]

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Life

Education and personal life

Asher Hobson graduated in 1913 with a bachelor of arts from the University of Kansas. He studied agricultural economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where in 1915 he obtained a master's degree. In 1931, he obtained a doctorate in political sciences from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. [2] Hobson in 1937 took over Little Norway, a living museum of a Norwegian village located in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Professional life

Hobson got his first position as research assistant in agriculture economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1914, which he occupied until 1916. In 1917 was appointed state director of markets in Washington, D.C. In 1920 he was named assistant chief of the Office of Farm Management with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He also took on an associate professorship of economic agriculture at Columbia University. [3]

In 1922, Asher Hobson moved to Rome as a U.S. delegate to the International Institute of Agriculture, and in 1929 he returned to Washington D.C. to take the position of consulting economist to the Federal Farm Board. In 1930, he was appointed chief of Division of Foreign Agriculture Service at U.S. Department of Agriculture. In 1931, Hobson accepted a professorship in agricultural economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where a year later he was appointed head of the department of agricultural economics, [4] a position he kept until 1948. He retired from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1953. Beginning in 1948, he was also a member of the Committee of Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry of the United States Senate.

Hobson was one of the leading U.S. agricultural economists of his times. [5] He was a member of the American Economic Association, the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association, the International Association of Agricultural Economists, the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, [5] and the honor society of Phi Kappa Phi and the Delta Sigma Rho.

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References

  1. Jenkins, John W.; Teicher, Barry; Hobson, Asher (November 9, 1983). "Oral History Interview: Asher Hobson (361)" via minds.wisconsin.edu.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. "Scholarships | The Fletcher School". fletcher.tufts.edu.
  3. "COLUMBIA TO STUDY FOOD MARKET HERE; Picked Class, Under Prof. Hobson to Seek Solution ofAcute Problems.GOVERNMENT TO ASSISTImproved Conditions Are Necessaryin the Distribution of Farm Products, Expert Asserts. (Published 1921)". July 17, 1921 via NYTimes.com.
  4. "On Wisconsin: An end for Little Norway and a possible return trip for its signature building". Star Tribune.
  5. 1 2 "Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids: Summary Information". digicoll.library.wisc.edu.