Hadley Twining

Background

Hadley Twining was born on 23 April in 1856.

Education

Hadley Twining studied at The Yale University in 1876.

Also, he was a student of the University of Berlin.

Career

His specialty was the administration and economics of railroads, an interest which is reflected in his classic Railroad Transportation, Its History and Laws (1885).

Achievements

• He was appointed chairman of the Railroad Securities Commission of the United States in 1910, and he was appointment by President William Howard Taft as chairman of the commission investigating the railroads in 1911

Works

• book

  • Railroad Transportation, Its History and Laws (1885), Economic Problems of Democracy (1923), and The Conflict between Liberty and Equality (1925)

• Other Work

  • Economics, An Account of Relations between Private Property and Public Welfare (1896)

  • The Education of the American Citizen (1901), Freedom and Responsibility (1903), Standards of Public Morality (1907)

  • Some Influences in Modern Philosophic Thought (1913), Undercurrents in American Politics (1915), The Moral Basis of Democracy (1919)