Ann Fetter Friedlaender

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Ann Fetter Friedlaender (born 1938 in Philadelphia ; died October 19, 1992 in Boston ) was an American economist .

Life

Ann Fetter graduated from Radcliffe College in 1960 with a BA in economics . She then studied with the help of a scholarship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and graduated in 1964 with a Ph.D. Then she was a lecturer in Helsinki as part of the Fulbright program . From 1965 to 1974 she taught at Boston College and then moved to MIT as a professor. From 1983 she headed the economics department and was dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences from 1984 to 1990. She was the first woman at MIT to head a department and faculty. Ann Friedlaender was a professor of economics and engineering.

She was co-editor of the journal "Transportation Science" for 14 years. She also sat on the board of directors of the Rand Corporation and the state-owned railway company Conrail (1978 to 1981 and 1987 to 1992). In the American Association of Economists American Economic Association , she was an active member.

She died of cancer in 1992.

She was married with two children and last lived in Newton .

Works

  • The Interstate Highway System: A Study in Public Investment (1965)
  • Studies in Economic Stabilization (Studies of Government Finance) (1968)
  • The Dilemma of Freight Transport Regulation (1969)
  • Government finance: economics of the public sector (1973)
  • Study of national housing needs: task 2, report on the relationship between house values, rents, and incomes (1973)
  • Approaches to Controlling Air Pollution (1978)
  • Freight transport regulation: equity, efficiency and competition in the rail and trucking industries (1981)
  • Interdependent Pricing and Markup Behavior: An Empirical Analysis of GM, Ford and Chrysler (1990)
  • Rail Costs and Capital Adjustments in a Quasi-Regulated Environment, in Journal of Transport Economics and Policy , vol. 27, no.2 May 1993, pp. 131-152 (1991)

Web links

literature

  • James and Julianne Cicarelli: Distinguished Women Economists . Greenwood Press, Westport, CT 2003, ISBN 0-313-30331-2 , pp. 76 ff .
personal data
SURNAME Friedlaender, Ann F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedlaender, Ann Fetter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1992
Place of death Boston