Walter Weyl
| Walter Weyl | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Walter Edward Weyl March 11, 1873 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Died |
November 9, 1919 (aged 46) |
| Cause of death | throat cancer |
| Residence | |
| Alma mater | Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania |
| Occupation | economist, journalist |
| Years active | 1901–1919 |
| Organization | The New Republic |
| Notable work | The New Democracy (1912) |
| Movement | Progressive movement |
| Spouse(s) | Bertha Poole Weyl |
| Children | Nathaniel Weyl |
| Parent(s) | Nathan Weyl |
| Relatives | Julius Stern |
Walter Edward Weyl (March 11, 1873 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – November 9, 1919 in ) was a writer and speaker, an intellectual leader of the Progressive movement in the United States. As a strong nationalist, his goal was to remedy the relatively weak American national institutions with a strong state. Weyl wrote widely on issues of economics, labor, public policy, and international affairs in numerous books, articles, and editorials; he was a coeditor of the highly influential The New Republic magazine, 1914-1916. His most influential book, The New Democracy (1912) was a classic statement of democratic meliorism, revealing his path to a future of progress and modernization based on middle class values, aspirations and brain work. It articulated the general mood:
His father, Nathan Weyl, had emigrated from the German Palatinate, but his death, when Walter was seven, left the boy in the care of five brothers and sisters at the home of his maternal grandmother, the widow of a Philadelphia merchant named Julius Stern.
Weyl started young (at 13) at Philadelphia Central High School and received a scholarship to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, entering as a junior and graduating (with distinction) two years later (at 19) after studies under economist Simon Patten. He studied law briefly and then went abroad for graduate work in economics at the universities of Halle, Paris, and Berlin. In 1896, he returned to Wharton to complete a doctorate; his dissertation was published a year later, as The Passenger Traffic of Railways.
In 1899, he left academia and drifted for several years. He worked at a settlement house in New York. He searched for mineral deposits in Mexico. He performed statistical surveys for the Bureau of Labor and the United States Department of the Treasury. He helped John Mitchell, leader of the United Mine Workers, write Organized Labor: Its Problems, Purposes, and Ideals (1903).
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