Portrait of Adolph Wagner

Adolph Wagner

German economist

Lived
1835–1917
Country
Germany

Updated September 2026

About Adolph Wagner

Adolph Wagner was a German economist and politician, a leading Kathedersozialist and public finance scholar and advocate of agrarianism. Wagner's law of increasing state activity is named after him.

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