Dr. Rawle Farley, an award-winning economist and educator, died on Nov. 6. He was 88 years old, and passed away at Rochester General Hospital in Rochester, N.Y.
Dr. Farley had been a professor of economics at the State University of New York, College at Brockport since 1966. He was the founder and first chairperson of the Department of Economics at SUNY Brockport, and was named Professor Emeritus in 1995.
Dr. Farley is the author of a number of seminal works that helped shape the study of the economics of the developing world, including “Planning for Development in Libya: The Exceptional Economy in the Developing World” (Praeger, 1971) and “The Economics of Latin Ameri....