Education
In 1930 he obtained a second Master of Arts from Harvard University, where in 1936 he obtained his Doctor of Philosophy with the thesis, entitled "Edward Atkinson, The of an American Liberal, 1827-1905" on Edward Atkinson.
In 1930 he obtained a second Master of Arts from Harvard University, where in 1936 he obtained his Doctor of Philosophy with the thesis, entitled "Edward Atkinson, The of an American Liberal, 1827-1905" on Edward Atkinson.
Born in Piper, Kansas to Samuel Williamson and Ella Watson, Williamson obtained his Bachelor of Arts in economics 1924 from the University of Southern California, where in 1926 he also obtained his Master of Arts in economics. Williamson had started his academic career teaching economic history at the University of Southern California. After moving to Boston he taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Harvard University.
In 1948 he was appointed Professor of American and European economic history at Northwestern University, where he worked until his retirement in 1969.
In his lectures he "placed the developments of American and European economic history in technological, sociological, geographic, and political context, enlivened with many examples of technological developments." L.
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