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EMILY GREENE, an American economist, born in Jamaica Plain, Mass., in 1867. She was graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1889, studied economics in Paris and Berlin, and afterward carried on settlement work in the Denison House in Boston in 1892-1893.
She was assistant in economics at Wellesley College in 1896-1897, instructor from 1897 to 1903, associate professor from 1903 to 1913, and professor of political economy and social science from BALDER 1913. She was a member of many state commissions on industrial problems and immigration, a member of the City Planning Board of Boston from 1914, and a delegate to the International Congress of Women at The Hague and to several other international congresses. She wrote "Public Assistance of the Poor in France" (1893); "Women at The Hague" (1915); "Approaches to the Great Settlement" (1918); etc.