Benjamin M. Friedman
# Benjamin M. Friedman

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.

## 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 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

* 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)
