Marcus Alexis
Marcus Alexis (born February 26, 1932 in Brooklyn , New York ; died May 27, 2009 in Stanford , California ) was an American economics professor.
Life
The African American Marcus Alexis studied from 1949 to 1953 at Brooklyn College , where he completed his Bachelor of Arts . He then moved to Michigan State University , where he received his Master of Arts in 1954 . This was followed by studies at the University of Minnesota with a Ph.D. in 1959. He also worked as a lecturer at this university. From September 1957 to August 1960 he was a lecturer at Macalester College in Saint Paul and then from September 1960 to June 1962 lecturer at DePaul University in Chicago in the field of business administration. In 1961 and 1962 he also conducted research at Harvard University and MIT .
From July 1960 to August 1970 he also taught at the University of Rochester and from July 1969 was visiting professor for two years at the University of Berkeley in the field of business administration. From September 1970 to 1979 he was Professor of Economics and Urban Economics at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois . From 1976 he headed the economics department of this university.
In 1979 he was proposed by US President Jimmy Carter for the vacant seat of Alfred T. MacFarland on the Interstate Commerce Commission . After his confirmation by the US Senate , he took office on August 27, 1979, which ran until December 31, 1985. After Ronald Reagan was elected US President in 1980, he resigned prematurely on June 30, 1981. Previously, he had temporarily passed on 2 February to 24 June 1981, the Interstate Commerce Commission and was Reese H. Taylor Jr. replaced. His vacant seat was deleted as part of a change in law from 1983.
After this appointment, he returned to Northwestern University, was a professor at the Kellogg School of Management and again headed the economics department until 1985. That year he was appointed director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago , and in 1990 he was chairman of the board of directors of the bank. In addition, he was Dean of the School of Business at the University of Illinois from 1985 to 1991 .
In 2005 he retired. Marcus Alexis was married and had three children.
Alexis was a member of the American Economic Association and the National Economic Association , the American Marketing Association , the Caucus of Black Economists , the Economics Club of Chicago, and the Lincoln Park Zoological Society . In addition, he was on various economic committees at state and federal level. He was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award of the National Economic Association , the Outstanding Achievement Award honored the University of Minnesota and an honorary doctorate of Brooklyn College.
Publications
- Racial differences in consumption and automobile ownership, 1959
- American living standards: A progress report, 1960
- Wholesaling in Minnesota (with Robert J. Holloway), 1966
- Organizational decision making (with Charles Z. Wilson), Englewood-Cliffs 1967
- Quantitative methods in marketing; a selected annotated bibliography, 1968
- Empirical foundations of marketing; research findings in the behavioral and management sciences. (with Robert J. Holloway, Robert Spencer Hancock), Chicago 1969
- Methodologies to measure the impact of enforcement of Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, Washington, 1975
- Black consumer profiles: food purchasing in the inner city (with George H. Haines, Leonard S. Simon), Ann Arbor, 1980
- Black economic progress: an agenda for the 1990s: a statement (with Margaret C. Simms), Washington, 1988
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Alexis, Marcus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn , New York |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 27, 2009 |
| Place of death | Stanford , California |