Alvin Saunders Johnson

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Alvin Saunders Johnson, Ph.D. (1874-1971) was an American economist, born near Homer, Neb., educated at the University of Nebraska and Columbia (Ph.D., 1902). Afterwards, he was employed in various positions at Columbia, the University of Nebraska, the University of Texas, the University of Chicago, Leland Stanford and at Cornell after 1913.

He was the founding president of The New School.

He was assistant editor of the Political Science Quarterly in 1902-06, editor from 1917 of the New Republic, New York City, and was author of Rent in Modern Economic Theory (1903), Introduction to Economics (1909), The Professor and the Petticoat (1914), a novel, and John Stuyvesant, Ancestor (1919).

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