Benjamin M. Friedman, a leading American political economist, is William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University. Friedman 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. Political economy was the original term for the study of production, the acts of buying and selling, and their relationships to laws, customs and government. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... The Council on Foreign Relations The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an American foreign policy think tank based in New York City. ... The Brookings Institution is one of the oldest and best known think tanks in the United States. ... The Encyclopædia Britannica is a general encyclopedia published by Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. ...

Friedman received his A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. degrees, all in economics, from Harvard. He also received an M.Sc. in economics and politics from King's College, Cambridge. He has been on the Harvard faculty since 1972. The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate course of one or two years in duration. ... Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... Full name The Kings College of Our Lady and St Nicholas in Cambridge Motto Veritas Et Utilitas Truth and usefulness Named after Henry VI Previous names - Established 1441 Sister College(s) New College Provost Prof. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ...

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) [1]

References

• The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth discussion at the Carnegie Council [Audio] [Video]
• Encyclopædia Britannica - about the editorial board
• "Benjamin M. Friedman" in Contemporary Authors Online, Thomson Gale, entry updated 9/17/2002.

External links

• 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