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Anita Arrow Summers papers, 1925-2018

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Summary

Creator:
Summers, Anita A.
Abstract:
Anite Arrow Summers (born 1925) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Sell-Lurie Real Estate Center and Professor Emerita of Public Policy and Management at the University of Pennsylvania. This collection primarily documents her professional life and family connections to other notable economists. It was acquired as part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
Extent:
0.5 Linear Feet
One box.
Language:
Material in English.
Collection ID:
RL.11815

Background

Scope and Content:

This collection documents Summers' career as an economist. It provides a sample of her professional activities, particularly her research on urban economics, education and economics, and the local economy in Philadelphia.

The collection also documents her familial ties to other prominent economists, such as her husband Robert Summers, her brother Kenneth J. Arrow, and her brother-in-law (via Robert) Paul A. Samuelson.

Biographical / Historical:

Anita Arrow Summers (born 1925) is a white American academic and government economist. She earned an AB in economics from Hunter College in 1945, an MA in economics from the University of Chicago in 1947, and undertook doctoral studies at Columbia University. She worked as Head of the Urban Section in the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia's Research Department, and in various capacities at the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Sell-Lurie Real Estate Center at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and Professor Emerita of Public Policy and Management at Wharton. She served as a member of the Board of Directors of Meridian Bancorp, Inc., Merit Mutual Savings Funds, Advancted Technology Center, William Penn Foundation, Executive Services Corps, and as Chair of the Board of Directors of Mathematica, Inc. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Waverly Heights, Ltd.

Summers has notable family ties to other prominent economists. Her brother is Kenneth J. Arrow. Her husband, Robert Summers, is a noted economist and the brother of Paul A. Samuelson. Anita Summers's son is economist Lawrence H. Summers.

Acquisition Information:
The Anita Arrow Summers papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library as a gift from Summers in 2019.
Processing information:

Processed by Jonathan Cogliano, February, 2020.

Accession described in this collection guide: 2019-0174.

Arrangement:

The Anita Arrow Summers papers are arranged alphabetically.

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Anita Arrow Summers papers, 1925-2018
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Collection ID RL.11815
EAD ID summersaa
ARK ark:/87924/m1bm1z
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