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Bernard E. Anderson

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Bernard E. Anderson is the Whitney M. Young, Jr. Professor Emeritus at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania,[1] where he was the first African American tenured professor, and the first to be awarded an endowed chair, the Whitney M Young,jr chair. He was Assistant Secretary of Labor during the Clinton Administration, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of Tuskegee University.[1] He was awarded the Samuel Z. Westerfield Award by the National Economic Association in 2003.[2][3] He was also awarded the 2016 Living Legacy Award from the Philadelphia-based Urban Affairs Coalition.[4] and the 2022 Labor and Employment Relations Association Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award.[5]

Bernard E. Anderson
United States Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment Standards
In office
Feb 24, 1994 – January 20, 2001
PresidentWilliam J. Clinton
Succeeded byVictoria Lipnic
Academic career
InstitutionBureau of Labor Statistics
Wharton School
Rockefeller Foundation
FieldIndustrial Economics, Labor Economics
Alma materLivingstone College (BA) Michigan State University (MA) University of Pennsylvania (PhD)
AwardsSamuel Z. Westerfield Award
Personal details
NationalityAmerican

Education and early life edit

Anderson was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and earned a B.A. degree in economics at Livingstone College and an M.A. degree in economics at Michigan State University, where he studied under Andrew F. Brimmer, his lifetime mentor, and the Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.[6] He was the seventh African American to earn a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, following Sadie T. M. Alexander, the first African American of either gender to earn a Ph.D. in economics in the U.S.

Career edit

Anderson worked for the Bureau of Labor Statistics,[7] and then became the second African American member of the Wharton School faculty,[1] and the first to be awarded tenure there.[6]

He was among the founders of the Caucus of Black Economists in 1969,[8] now the National Economic Association, and has served as that organization's president.[7] He was also inaugural chair of the Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority, vice chair of the Manpower Demonstration and Research Corporation, chair of the Board of Trustees of Lincoln University, and vice chair of the Board of Trustees of Tuskegee University.[9]

Anderson was appointed as Assistant Secretary of Labor for the Employment Standards Administration by President William J. Clinton in 1993, and was confirmed by the Senate for this position in February 1994.[10] He returned to Wharton in 2001 as Whitney M. Young, Jr. Professor of Management.[7]

Selected works edit

  • Anderson, Bernard E. "The ebb and flow of enforcing executive order 11246." The American Economic Review 86, no. 2 (1996): 298–301.
  • America, Richard F., and Bernard E. Anderson. Moving ahead: Black managers in American business. McGraw-Hill, 1978.
  • Anderson, Bernard E., and Phyllis A. Wallace. "Public policy and Black economic Progress: A review of the evidence." The American Economic Review 65, no. 2 (1975): 47–52.
  • Anderson, Bernard E. "How much did the programs help minorities and youth?." Employing the Unemployed. New York: Basic Books, Inc (1980).
  • Anderson, Bernard E. "Worker protection policies in the new century." Journal of Economic Perspectives 14, no. 1 (2000): 207–214,
  • Sawhill, Isabelle and Bernard E. Anderson, Youth Employment and Public Policy. New York: Columbia University Press (1977)
  • Anderson, Bernard E., The Opportunity Industrialization Centers: A Decade of Community Based Manpower Development. University of Pennsylvania Press (1974)

References edit

  1. ^ a b c "Bernard Anderson | Tuskegee University". www.tuskegee.edu. Retrieved 2020-01-26.
  2. ^ "Bernard E. Anderson Receives Westerfield Award - Higher Education". 30 January 2003. Retrieved 2020-01-26.
  3. ^ Simms, Margaret C. (March 2003). "Introduction of Bernard E. Anderson Recipient of the 2003 Samuel Z. Westerfield Award". The Review of Black Political Economy. 30 (4): 13–15. doi:10.1007/bf02687547. ISSN 0034-6446. S2CID 153742742.
  4. ^ Admin, E. S. I. (2016-11-08). "ESI Senior Advisor Bernard Anderson To Recieve [sic] UAC Living Legacy Award". Econsult Solutions, Inc. Retrieved 2023-01-30.
  5. ^ "Award Recipients 2022". www.leraweb.org. Retrieved 2023-01-30.
  6. ^ a b "CSMGEP Profiles: Bernard E. Anderson, University of Pennsylvania". www.aeaweb.org. Retrieved 2020-01-26.
  7. ^ a b c "Bernard Anderson". Econsult Solutions, Inc. Retrieved 2020-01-26.
  8. ^ Casselman, Ben; Tankersley, Jim; Smialek, Jeanna (2020-01-07). "A Year After a #MeToo Reckoning, Economists Still Grapple With It". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
  9. ^ "Bernard Anderson". Wharton on Business Radio 132. Retrieved 2020-01-27.
  10. ^ Resources, United States Congress Senate Committee on Labor and Human (1995). Legislative Calendar, One Hundred Third Congress: 1994. U.S. Government Printing Office. ISBN 978-0-16-047005-9.


 

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