Benjamin M. Friedman
William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University
One of America's leading experts on economic policy, Benjamin
Friedman has helped to shape economic thinking at the highest levels through
his scholarship and professional activities. His books include Day of
Reckoning: The Consequences of Economic Policy Under Reagan and After,
which won the George S. Eccles Prize from Columbia University and was a
Book-of-the-Month Club first-alternate selection. His newest book is
The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth. In addition to
writing many books and articles, he has served as a director of the Private
Export Funding Corporation, a trustee of the Standish Mellon Investment
Trust, and an advisor to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and in
advisory positions with the National Bureau of Economic Research, the
National Science Foundation Subcommittee on Economics, and the
Congressional Budget Office. He is a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations and the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity.
Besides his extensive scholarly writing, Friedman contributes
regularly to The New York Review of Books. He is the William Joseph Maier
Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University and a former chairman
of the university's economics department. Friedman holds bachelor's, master's,
and doctoral degrees from Harvard and a master’s from King’s College,
University of Cambridge.
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