{{Short description|German economist (1892–1974)}} {{Use British English|date=May 2020}} {{use dmy dates|date=May 2020}} '''Edgar Bernhard Jacques Salin''' (10 February 1892 – 17 May 1974) was a German economist, historian, and translator.
== Biography == Born in Frankfurt, Salin studied political economy and jurisprudence, completing his PhD at Heidelberg University in 1913 with a thesis on the economic development of Alaska under the supervision of Alfred Weber. After habilitating at Heidelberg in 1920 with a monograph on the political thought of Plato, Salin taught there and at Kiel before taking up a position as Professor of National Economy at the University of Basel in 1927, which he held until 1962.<ref name="NDB">{{NDB|22|372|373|Salin, Edgar Bernhard Jacques|Föllmi, Anton|118750925}}</ref> He served as Chancellor of Basel University. He founded the journal ''Kyklos'' at Basel in 1947.<ref name="Basel">{{cite web|url=https://unigeschichte.unibas.ch/fakultaeten-und-faecher/wirtschaftswiss.-fakultaet/edgar-salin/anfaenge-wirtschaftswissenschaften-salin.html|title=Edgar Salin (1892–1974)|website=Universität Basel|language=de|access-date=5 May 2020|archive-date=1 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190901085933/https://unigeschichte.unibas.ch/fakultaeten-und-faecher/wirtschaftswiss.-fakultaet/edgar-salin/anfaenge-wirtschaftswissenschaften-salin.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Salin's economic theory integrated influences from John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, and Friedrich List.<ref name="NDB" /> He supported far-reaching economic interventionism. In the 1920s he was associated with the poet Stefan George and his circle, and George's aestheticist outlook influenced Salin throughout his career.<ref name="Basel" /> He was a proponent of European integration, and after World War II he became a prominent critic of ordoliberalism, particularly the work of Wilhelm Röpke. In addition to his economic research, Salin published a series of translations of Plato. He died on 17 May 1974 in Veytaux, Switzerland.<ref name="NDB" />
Salin was awarded the Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt in 1962 and the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1972.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lagis-hessen.de/pnd/118750925|title=Salin, Edgar Bernhard Jacques|website=Hessische Biografie|language=de|access-date=5 May 2020}}</ref>
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