Benjamin M. Friedman

Benjamin M. Friedman ( born 1944 ) is an American economist. He is Professor of Political Economy at the Department of Economics at Harvard University.

Life

Friedman received a B. A. (1966, summa cum laude ) and an M. A. (1969 ) in economics from Harvard University and an M. Sc. in economics and politics from King's College ( Cambridge ) ( 1970). In 1971 he finished his Ph. D. in Economics from Harvard University.

He has worked during his studies, among others, for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and was an advisor to the President of 1969 until 1971. 1971-72, he worked at Morgan Stanley. Since 1972, Friedman is Professor of Economics at Harvard University.

Writings

  • Economic Stabilization Policy: Methods in Optimization. Amsterdam and New York: North -Holland Publishing Company and American Elsevier Publishing Company, 1975.
  • New Challenges to the Role of Profit (editor and part author ). Lexington: D. C. Heath and Company, 1978.
  • Monetary Policy in the United States: Design and Implementation. Chicago and Tokyo: Association of Reserve City Bankers and Toyo Keizai Shinposa, 1981.
  • The Changing Roles of Debt and Equity in Financing U.S. Capital Formation (editor and part author ). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.
  • Corporate Capital Structures in the United States (editor and part author ). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
  • Financing Corporate Capital Formation (editor and part author ). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
  • Day of Reckoning: The Consequences of American Economic Policy under Reagan and After. New York: Random House, 1988.
  • Handbook of Monetary Economics ( co - editor, with Frank H. Hahn, and part author ). Amsterdam: North -Holland Publishing Company and American Elsevier Publishing Company, 1990.
  • Does Debt Management Matter? ( co-authored with Jonas Agell and Mats Persson ). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
  • The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
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