弗朗西斯·沃尔克-详解.docx

? ? ? ? ? 弗朗西斯·沃尔克-详解 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 本条目包含过多不是中文的内容，欢迎协助翻译。 若已有相当内容译为中文，可迳自去除本模板。 弗朗西斯·沃尔克(Francis Amasa Walker) 弗朗西斯·沃尔克(Francis Amasa Walker) 目录 1 弗朗西斯·沃尔克简介 2 弗朗西斯·沃尔克奖 3 Francis Amasa Walker 4 Life 5 Work 6 Legacy 7 Publications 弗朗西斯·沃尔克简介 　　弗朗西斯·沃尔克（Francis Amasa Walker,1840年7月2日- 1897年1月5日）出生于美国马萨诸塞州，19世纪后期美国著名经济学家，教育家。曾任美国人口普查局总监，麻省理工学院第三任校长、美国统计学会会长、美国经济学会会长、耶鲁大学教授等职。他在南北战争时期曾任联邦陆军准将。 弗朗西斯·沃尔克奖 　　弗朗西斯·沃尔克奖章(The Francis A. Walker Medal)由美国经济协会于1947年设立，它以美国早期经济学家弗朗西斯·沃尔克（Francis Amasa Walker）名字命名，每五年颁发一次，用于表彰毕生致力于经济学研究且取得重大成就的经济学家，或者在沃尔克奖章评比期间对经济学发展作出杰出贡献且尚在世的美国经济学家。但随着1969年举世瞩目的诺贝尔经济学奖创立，作为经济学领域荣誉的沃尔克奖章略显多余，它于1981年停止颁发。 Francis Amasa Walker 　　Francis Amasa Walker (July 2, 1840 – January 5, 1897)American soldier and economist, born in Boston, Massachusetts, on the 2nd of July 1840. His father, Amasa Walker, was also a distinguished economist, who, retiring from commercial life in 1840, lectured on political economy in Oberlin College from 1842 to 1848, was examiner in the same subject at Harvard from 1853 to 1860, and lecturer at Amherst from 1859 to 1869. He was a delegate to the first international peace congress in London 1843, and in 1849 to the peace congress in Paris. He was secretary of state of Massachusetts from 1851 to 1853 and a representative in Congress 1862-63. His principal work, The Science of Wealth, attained great popularity as a textbook. Amasas son, Francis Walker, graduated at Amherst College in 1860, studied law, and fought in the Northern army during the whole of the Civil War of 1861-65, rising from the rank of sergeant-major to that of brevet brigadier-general of volunteers -- awarded him at the request of General Winfield Scott Hancock. 　　As a soldier he excelled in analysis of the position and strength of the enemy. In 1864 he was captured and detained for a time in the famous Libby Prison, Richmond. 　　After the war he became editorial writer on the Springfield (Massachusetts) Republican, and in 1869 was made ch