First name
Martin T.Last name
FarrisAcademic unit
W. P. Carey School of BusinessStatus
DeceasedType of professor
Regents ProfessorYear
1988Bio image
Bio summary
When Farris joined ASU in 1958, the then College of Business Administration had only recently been formed. An economist, Farris was interested in transportation, distribution and logistics. His first textbook “Domestic Transportation: Practice, Theory and Policy” expanded the scope of transportation to include planning, labor relations, management and marketing as well as traditional economics.