Benjamin M. Friedman

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

Life

Friedman received B.A. (1966, summa cum laude ) and 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 received his Ph. D. in Economics from Harvard University.

During his studies he worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, among others, and was advisor to the President from 1969 to 1971. From 1971 to 1972 he worked for Morgan Stanley . Friedman has been Professor of Economics at Harvard University since 1972.

In 2009 he was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Fonts

  • 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: DC 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 US 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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SURNAME Friedman, Benjamin M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist
DATE OF BIRTH 1944