Benjamin Friedman has written extensively on economic policy, and in particular on the role of the financial markets in shaping how monetary and fiscal policies affect overall economic activity. He is the author and/or editor of eleven books aimed primarily at economists and economic policymakers, as well as the author of more than one hundred articles on monetary economics, macroeconomics, and monetary and fiscal policy, published in numerous journals. He is also a frequent contributor to publications reaching a broader audience, including especially The New York Review of Books
The Economy and the Road Ahead
Mr. Friedman looks at the effects of government deficits on interest rates, exchange rates, and business investment; appropriate guidelines for the conduct of U.S. monetary policy; and appropriate policy actions in response to crises in the country's banking or financial system.
Respected Voice on Economic Issues
Benjamin M. Friedman is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy, and formerly Chairman of the Department of Economics, at Harvard University. Mr. Friedman has written extensively on economic policy, and in particular on the role of the financial markets in shaping how monetary and fiscal policies affect overall economic activity. He is the author and/or editor of eleven books aimed primarily at economists and economic policymakers, as well as the author of more than one hundred articles on monetary economics, macroeconomics, and monetary and fiscal policy, published in numerous journals. He is also a frequent contributor to publications reaching a broader audience, including especially The New York Review of Books.
Award-Winning Author
His book The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth (Alfred A. Knopf,2005) received praise from BusinessWeek for providing a "...new framework and language for discussing economic growth, one that's useful for economists, politicians, and business leaders alike." Mr. Friedman's best known book entitled Day of Reckoning: The Consequences of American Economic Policy Under Reagan and After, received the George S. Eccles Prize, awarded annually by Columbia University for excellence in writing about economics.
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