who among the the social scientists led the emergence of the nation-state carried with it ever growing bureaucracies concerned with gathering information, chiefly for taxation, census, and trade purposes?
Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman, (born April 25, 1861, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died July 8, 1939, Lake Placid, N.Y.), American economist and educator, an expert on taxation.
