Benjamin Morton Friedman (; born 1944) is an

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, 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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'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

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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

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. He has been on the Harvard faculty since 1972. Currently Friedman is a member of the

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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

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