ADDRESS: Department of Economics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
HOME ADDRESS: 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
TELEPHONE: (617) 552-3682 (Business)
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A.B. from Boston College - 1940
Further degrees:
Weston College, School of Philosophy, Ph.L., 1941
Fordham University, M.A. - Economics, 1943
Weston College, School of Theology, S.T.L., 1947
Boston College, Ph.D. in Economics, 1957
Professor, Department of Economics, Boston College, 1968-91.
Chairman, Department of Economics, 1957-1970.
Associate Professor, 1957-1967.
Assistant Professor of Economics, 1952-1957.
Instructor in Economics and Marketing, Boston College, 1942- 1943; 1948-1952.
Visiting Professor of Economics, Loyola University of Los Angeles, Summer, 1962.
Member, State Club of Massachusetts - Board of Directors.1975
Member, American Economic Association: 1942-1976.
Member, The Newcomen Society in North America: 1974-1977,
Charter Member, Massachusetts Consumer Association, 1962-92.
Board of Directors: 1962--92 ( President, 1971-1977).
Member, Massachusetts Chapter, Americans for Democratic Action:
1956-1976.
Member, Consumers Union of the United States.
Member, American Council on Consumer Interests,1956 --; President, two
terms (1965-1967.)
Member, Cooperative Institute Association, Inc.: 1964-1970.
Elected Chairman, Steering Committee for Consumer Federation
of America, Inc., 1966-1967.
Original Incorporator, Member of Board of Directors and Secretary,
Consumer Research Foundation, Inc., Sacramento, California,
1967-1968. Board Member, 1992--
Original Incorporator, Consumer Federation of America, Inc., 1967.
Elected first President, Consumer Federation of America, Inc., 1968-1969.
Founding Committee member, Original Incorporator, and Vice-Chairman
Conference of Consumer Organizations, 1973-85,
Chairman and Editor of COCO INTERCOM, 1985---.
Member, New England Consumer Education Committee: 1969-1971.
Consumer member, Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.: 1969-1972.
Member, Pharmacy Committee, Massachusetts Health Council. 1978-
Reader, national Science Foundation, 1978; U.S. Office of Consumer Education, 1980
Member, Massachusetts AUTOCAP (Automobile Consumer Action Panel)
1978-83.
CHAIRMAN, Ford Motor Company, New England Region, Ford Consumer
Appeals Board, 1983-1989
Member, AT&T Consumer Advisory Panel, 1975- Elected Chairman,
1989-90
Member and Chairman, Advisory Consumer Council to Attorney
General McCormack of Massachusetts, 1958-1962. Reappointed
by Attorney General Edward Brooke, 1963.
Member and Chairman of the first Statutory Consumers' Council,
established in the Executive Department of the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts by the Massachusetts Legislature, 1963-1964,
reappointed member 1965-1967, and 1975-1979
Member and Chairman, Advisory Board in the Division of Food
and Drugs of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health:
1967-1971.
Member, New England Council, Research Advisory Committee,
1965-1970.
Appointed by President Johnson, Member of the President's Com-
mittee on Consumer Interests and the Consumer Advisory Council,
1965-1966.
Chairman, Sub-Committee on Consumer Education, President's
Consumer Advisory Council, 1965.
Appointed member of the Task Force on Stabilization, Massachusetts
Civil Defense Agency, 1964-1965.
Reappointed by President Johnson, Member of President's Consumer Advisory
Council, 1967-1969.
Appointed member of National Motor Vehicle Safety Advisory
Council in the Department of Transportatioon, Washington DC 1968-1971.
Appointed member of Medical Assistance Advisory Council for the
Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1968-1971.
Appointed Chairman, Consumer Task Force - White House Conference
on Food, Nutrition and Health - 1969.
Member of the Special Commission Investigating the Slaughtering
and Processing of Certain Animals, Commonwealth of Massachu-
setts, 1969-1970.
Member, Consumer Advisory Council, U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Consumer and Marketing Service, 1968.
Consultant, Food and Drug Administration, HEW, 197l.
Chairman, Consumer Advisory Committee to the Mayor of the City
of Newton, 1974.
Appointed Consultant to the Cost of Living Council, Washington,
1973.
Appointed a Consumer member of the Product Safety Advisory Council
to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, 1975-1977.
Member, National Education Advisory Committee, Consumers Union,
1976---.
Member, The Memorial Society of New England, Inc., Board of
Directors.
Member, Consumer Advisory Council, Board of Governors, Federal
Reserve System, Washington 1980-1983.
Member, Role Delineation Advisory Committee, National Center for Health Education, San Francisco,1979-81
Member, National Task Force on the Preparation and Practice of
Health Educators, Inc. 1982-86.
Member, Advisory Committee to the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment for project on "Securities markets and information technology". Washington, DC 1989-90
Member, Steering Committee and member Joint Board of the New Start Auto Insurance project, Washington, 1989-93
The Social Responsibilities of Business; Consumer Problems;
The Regulatory Agencies of Government; Fair Trade Laws;
Consumer Representation and Codes of Business Ethics.
First Annual Consumer Affairs Foundation Tribune Award,
October 31, 1973 - Boston Better Business Bureau.
Roosevelt Day Award, Massachusetts Chapter, ADA, March 14, 1970.
Consumer Man of the Year Award - Association of Massachusetts
Consumers - 1966.
American Council on Consumer Interests - Distinguished Fellow
Award - 1980, San Diego, California.
American Men and Women of Science: 13th edition, Social &
Behavioral Sciences, 1978, p. 799.
Who's Who in the East, 1968-1969, Vol. 11; 1970-1971, Vol. 12; 1986-7 Vol.21.
1989-1990, Vol.22, vol. 24, 1993-94
Who's Who in the World, 1989, 9th edition, p. 752, 11th Edition
Who's in Finance and Industry, 26th Edit. 1989-90, p. 511
American Catholic Who's Who - Vol. 22, p. 373.
"Monetary Policy in a Democracy," America, March 13, 1948, pp. 656-568.
"Essential Monetary Reform," America, April 17, 1948, pp. 27-28 and p. 35.
"The Proper Monetary Role of the State in Catholic Teaching," Review of Social Economy,
March 1951.
"Marginal Ethos and the Just Price," Review of Social Economy, March 1957.
Testimony in Hearings Before House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee on Fair Trade Laws, April 30, 1958, pp. 136-174.
Testimony in Hearings Before Senate Select Committee on Small Business on Discount-House Operations, June 24, 1958, pp. 215-249.
Testimony in Hearings Before House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee on Fair Trade Laws, March 23, 1959, pp. 538-563.
"Fair Trade Laws," in Social Order, June 1959.
"Fair Trade Legislation," Vital Speeches of the Day, July 1, 1959, pp. 559-562.
Testimony in Hearings Before Senate Committeee on Banking and Currency on Truth in Lending Bill, July 24, 1964, pp. 585-600.
Testimony in Hearings Before House Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs of the Committee on Banking and Currency, August 14, 1967, Part 1, pp. 363-401 and pp. 408-409.
"Consumer Economics," a one-hour recording in the Economics Series of the Campus Library, published by Campus World, Inc., 1964.
Statement to National Commission on Food Marketing, 1965.
"Wanted: A Watchful Consumer," in One Step Together, Boston Branch NAACP, November 1965, pp. 19 and 20.
Editor, "New Frontiers in Consumer Economics," published by the Council on Consumer Information, 1966.
"Consumer and Co-operator," Proceedings of Fiftieth Anniversary Congress of the Cooperative League of the U.S.A., St. Paul, Minnesota, 1966, pp. 226-233.
"Capital" and "Capitalism," in The Catholic Encyclopedia for School and Home, McGraw Hill, Vol. II., pp. 258-260 and 263-268, 1965.
Editor, Consumer Directory, published by Council on Consumer Information, 1967.
"The Economics of Consumption," in The New Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. IV, pp. 254-257, 1967.
"Fair Trade Laws," in The New Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. V, p. 791, 1967.
"Economic Issues in State Regulation of Consumer Credit," B.C. Industrial and Commercial Law Review, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 387-407, Spring, 1967. REPRINTED IN Consumer Credit Protection Act, Hearings Before House Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs of the Committee on Banking and Currency, Part 2, August 18, 1967, pp. 939-961.
"Consumer Advice in Massachusetts," International Consumer, Spring, 1967.
"Strange Business Reactions to Consumer Complaints," Journal of Consumer Affairs,
Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 42-51, Summer, 1967.
"Return to Mobility," in Woodstock Letters, Summer 1968.
Testimony at a Public Hearing of the National Commission on Product Safety, United States Customs Court, New York, October 22, 1968.
"U.S.A. - Elections - Pessimistic Outlook," International Consumer, November 5, 1968 (French translation in issue of December, 1968).
Testimony at National Consumer Protection Hearings Held Before FTC
on November 21, 1968, in Washington, D.C.
Testimony at Federal Trade Commission Hearings on Automobile Warranties on February 6, 1969, in Washington, D.C. REPRINTED IN "Automotive Repair Industry," Part 5, Appendix; Hearings before Senate Sub-committee on Antitrust and Monopoly, 1971,
pp. 2109-2122.
Testimony in Hearings of March 26, 1969, on A Bill To Amend National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1976.
"Consumer Expectations from the White House Nutrition Conference," in Food, Drug, Cosmetic Law Journal, December 1970, pp. 531-538.
Consumer Problems in Relation to the Food Industries," in U.S. Nutrition Policies in the Seventies (Edited by Jean Mayer), W.H. Freeman, San Francisco, 1973.
Testimony in Joint Hearings on "Consumer Product Safety Commis sion--Oversight," U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., 1977, pp. 305-327.
"A Handbook for Consumer Participation in Health Care Planning" - (Co-author with Leda R. Judd, J.D.) published by the Blue Cross Association, Chicago, Illinois, 1977.
Panel Presentation on "The Consumer Movement and Public Interest," printed in the Proceedings of the Second Annual Midwestern Conference on Food and Social Policy," Sioux City, Iowa, November, 1977.
"The Three Strands of the U.S. Consumer Movement," in Consumer Affairs, No. 53, September/October, 198l, London, England.
Testimony in Hearings on Delayed Availability of Bank Deposits to U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, March 10, 1982.
Statement in Hearings on Copyright Law Revision to U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, April, 1982. Printed in "Copyright Infringements." Hearings before U.S. Senate, Committee on the Judiciary, April 21, 1982, pp. 1081-1088.
"The Progress of the U.S. Consumer Movement in Modern Times"--Speech to International Consumer Leader Forum, Hilton Hotel, Tokyo, Japan, June 22, 1982.
PRINTED by Avon. Inc.,
"New Technology and the Copyright Debate," in Concerns, Vol. 5, N.1 February 1983, published by the Consumer Education Resource Network, Rosslyn, Va
Testimony in Hearings before U.S. Senate, Committee on the Judiciary, "Copyright Law Reform - The First Sale Doctrine," April 29, 1983.