Benjamin M. Friedman
Benjamin M. Friedman | |
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| Born | 1944 (age 79–80) Kentucky, U.S. |
| Education | Harvard University (BA, MA, PhD) King's College, Cambridge (MSc) |
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| Field | Macroeconomics |
| Institution | Harvard University |
| Doctoral students | Glenn Hubbard[1] |
Benjamin Morton Friedman (/ˈfriːdmən/; born 1944) is an American political economist, who is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Brookings Institute's Panel on Economic Activity, and the editorial board of the Encyclopædia Britannica. He is a recipient of the John R. Commons Award, given by the economics honor society Omicron Delta Epsilon.[2]
Biography
[edit]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 King's College, Cambridge, 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]References
[edit]- Encyclopædia Britannica - about the editorial board
- "Benjamin M. Friedman" in Contemporary Authors Online, Thomson Gale, entry updated 9/17/2002.
External links
[edit]- Benjamin Friedman, homepage at Harvard
- Other works Amazon.com
- Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal book review (27-Dec-2005)
- Growth is Good: An economist's take on the moral consequences of material progress; by J. Bradford DeLong
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