Benjamin Morton Friedman (; born 1944) is an American political economist, who is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at

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. He is a member of the

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, the Brookings Institute's Panel on Economic Activity, and the editorial board of the ''

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''. He is a recipient of the John R. Commons Award, given by the economics honor society Omicron Delta Epsilon.

Biography

Friedman received his A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. degrees, all in economics, from Harvard University. He also received an M.Sc. in economics and politics from

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, as a Marshall Scholar. He has been on the Harvard faculty since 1972. Currently Friedman is a member of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation.

Partial bibliography

* ''Economic Stabilization Policy: Methods in Optimization'', American Elsevier (1975) * ''Monetary Policy in the United States: Design and Implementation'', Association of Reserve City Bankers (1981) * ''Day of Reckoning: The Consequences of American Economic Policy under Reagan and After'', Random House (1988) * ''Implications of Increasing Corporate Indebtedness for Monetary Policy'', Group of Thirty (New York, NY) (1990) * ''Does Debt Management Matter?'', with Jonas Agell and Mats Persson, Oxford University Press (New York, NY) (1992) *
The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth
', Knopf (2005) * ''Religion and the Rise of Capitalism'', Knopf (2021)

Notes

References

* "Benjamin M. Friedman" in ''Contemporary Authors Online'', Thomson Gale, entry updated 9/17/2002.

External links

Benjamin Friedman
homepage at Harvard
Other works
Amazon.com
Brad DeLong's
''Semi-Daily Journal'' book review (27-Dec-2005)

''An economist's take on the moral consequences of material progress''; by J. Bradford DeLong 1944 births Living people People from Kentucky American futurologists 20th-century American economists 21st-century American economists 20th-century American Jews Marshall Scholars Harvard University faculty Harvard College alumni Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 21st-century American Jews University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences alumni {{US-economist-stub