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Benjamin Morton Friedman, a leading American political economist
Political economy

Political economy originally was the term for studying production, buying and selling, and their relations with law, custom, and government. Political economy originated in moral philosophy....
, is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
. Friedman is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations
Council on Foreign Relations

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

Friedman received his A.B.
Bachelor's degree

A bachelor's degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts for three, four, or in some cases and countries, five or six years....
, A.M., and Ph.D.
Ph.D.

Ph.D. or PHD may stand for:* Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group* Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip...
 degrees, all in economics, from Harvard. He also received an M.Sc. in economics and politics from King's College, Cambridge
King's College, Cambridge

King's College, Cambridge is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and St. Nicholas in Cambridge, it is referred to as King's within the university....
. He has been on the Harvard faculty since 1972.








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Benjamin Morton Friedman, a leading American political economist
Political economy

Political economy originally was the term for studying production, buying and selling, and their relations with law, custom, and government. Political economy originated in moral philosophy....
, is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
. Friedman is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations
Council on Foreign Relations

The Council on Foreign Relations is an American nonpartisan foreign policy membership organization founded in 1921 and based at 58 East 68th Street in New York City, with an additional office in Washington, D.C....
, the Brookings Institute's Panel on Economic Activity, and the editorial board of the Encyclopędia Britannica
Encyclopędia Britannica

The Encyclop?dia Britannica is a general English language encyclopedia published by Encyclop?dia Britannica, Inc., a privately held company....
.

Friedman received his A.B.
Bachelor's degree

A bachelor's degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts for three, four, or in some cases and countries, five or six years....
, A.M., and Ph.D.
Ph.D.

Ph.D. or PHD may stand for:* Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group* Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip...
 degrees, all in economics, from Harvard. He also received an M.Sc. in economics and politics from King's College, Cambridge
King's College, Cambridge

King's College, Cambridge is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and St. Nicholas in Cambridge, it is referred to as King's within the university....
. He has been on the Harvard faculty since 1972.

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)


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  • Semi-Daily Journal book review (27-Dec-2005)
  • An economist's take on the moral consequences of material progress; by J. Bradford DeLong
    J. Bradford DeLong

    James Bradford DeLong commonly known as Brad DeLong, is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the United States Department of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration....