Historical & Practical Politics Woodrow Wilson 1st Edition Milo Roy Maltbie

by Woodrow Wilson

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From the private library of Milo Roy Maltbie 1890. Milo Roy Maltbie (born Hinckley, Illinois, April 3, 1871; died New York City, New York, December 22, 1962) was an American economist who specialized in public utilities. He is best known for his service as the chairman of the New York Public Service Commission from 1930 to 1949. Milo R. Maltbie, Commissioner of the New York State Public Service Commission Maltbie had become interested in municipal governance; in 1897 he published English Local Government of Today, A Study of the Relations of Central and Local Governments. From 1897 to 1902 Maltbie was the secretary of the City Reform Club in New York City; he travelled to Europe in 1899 to study the problems of municipal governance. He was also the editor of Municipal Affairs, the quarterly publication of the club on civic reform. In 1898 the club published his Municipal Functions; A Study of the Development, Scope and Tendency of Municipal Socialism. In 1901 he edited and contributed to a study of the street railways of Chicago; in the introduction he was referred to as "...a well-known writer on municipal and economic subjects..."[3] Starting in 1901 Maltbie, building on the work of Henry Carter Adams on railroads, developed the idea of the "uniform system of accounts" for utilities, legally-required standards of accounting that required utilities to keep separate detailed records for each distinct part of their operations.[4] From 1902 to 1907 Maltbie was the secretary of

• Year: 1889
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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