early 1920s, including such figures as Scott Nearing and Harry Waton. Seligman's later academic work revolved around questions of tax policy and consumer finance. Among his students was B.R. Ambedkar, the principal architect of the Constitution of India. Seligman's teaching career ended in 1931. Death and legacy Edwin Seligman died July 18, 1939. His beliefs were highly influential with Charles A. Beard, who was an academic colleague at Columbia. In particular, Seligman's economic viewpoints to history helped inform Beard's work An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States. As a mentor to fiscal experts including Carl Shoup, Seligman's ideas also guided post-World War II tax reform. Works Books and pamphlets Railway Tariffs and the Interstate Commerce Act. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1887. The General Property Tax. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1890. Progressive Taxation in Theory and Practice (1894). Second Edition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1908. The Shifting and Incidence of Taxation (1899). Second Edition. New York: Macmillan, 1902. Report of the Committee of Economists on the dismissal of Professor Ross from Leland Stanford Junior University. Detroit?: The Committee?, 1901. The Economic Interpretation of History. New York: Macmillan, 1902. Essays in Taxation. New York: Macmillan, 1905. Principles of Economics: With Special Reference to American Conditions. New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1905. The Income Tax: A Study of the History, Theory and Practice of Income Taxation at Home and Abroad. New York: Macmillan, 1911. The Social Evil: With Special Reference to Conditions Existing in the City of New York. (Editor.) New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912. An Economic Interpretation of the War. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1915. The Next Step in Tax Reform: Presidential Address of Edwin R. A. Seligman, LL. D., Delivered at the Ninth Annual Conference of the National Tax Association, San Francisco, August 11, 1915. New York: National Tax Association, 1915. A University School of Business. New York: Columbia University Press, 1916. How to Finance the War. With Robert Murray Haig. New York: Division of Intelligence and Publicity of Columbia University, 1917. Financial Mobilization for War: Papers Presented at a Joint Conference of the Western Economic Society and the City Club of Chicago, June 21 and 22, 1917. (Editor.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1917. The House Revenue Bill: A Constructive Criticism. New York: Division of Intelligence and Publicity of Columbia University, 1917. Currency Inflation and Public Debts: An Historical Sketch. New York: