Lecture: Confessions of a Late Starter
Twelfth Annual Philip Gamble Memorial Lecture sponsored by the Department of Economics.
Marianne A. Ferber, Professor of Economics and Women's Studies, Emerita University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, born in Czechoslovakia in 1923, emigrated to Canada in 1938, obtained her BA degree at MacMaster University, and her PhD at the University of Chicago. She was visiting scholar at Stanford University in 1984 and visiting Professor at Radcliffe 1993-95. Ferber is co-author of The Economics of Women, Men and Work, co-editor of Beyond Economic Man, its sequel Feminist Economics Today, co-editor of Work and Family: Policies for a Changing Work Force, and author or co-author of numerous other publications. She has been active in American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP), was a founding member and second president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE), and president of the Midwest Economics Association (MEA).
The Philip Gamble Memorial Lectureship Endowment was established by Israel Rogosa '42 and other family and friends in memory of Philip Gamble, a member of the economics faculty from 1935-71 and chair of the department from 1942-65. The fund supports an annual lecture series featuring a prominent economist. Previous speakers in this series have included John Kenneth Galbraith, Joseph Stiglitz, John Nash, James Tobin, Kenneth Arrow, Robert Solow, Barbara Bergmann, Lani Guinier, Robert Reich and Robert Shiller.
Directions & Parking
Gordon Hall is located on the east side of campus near the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and North Pleasant Street. Visitors may park at the meters in Lot #34 behind the Robsham Visitor's Center on Massachusetts Avenue.