Benjamin M. Friedman

Benjamin M. Friedman is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard. His most recent book is The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth. (November 2008)

From the Review

May 28, 2009: The Failure of the Economy & the Economists

Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller

The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do About It by Robert J. Shiller

November 6, 2008: A Challenge to the Free Market

The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too by James K. Galbraith

March 20, 2008: Chairman Greenspan's Legacy

The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan

November 8, 2007: FDR & the Depression: The Big Debate

The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes

Long-Range Public Investment: The Forgotten Legacy of the New Deal by Robert D. Leighninger Jr.

October 21, 2004: Bush & Kerry: A Big Divide

November 21, 2002: What Is Poverty? (letter)

August 15, 2002: Globalization: Stiglitz's Case

Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz

October 19, 2000: Gore vs. Bush: The Difference

July 15, 1999: The Power of the Electronic Herd

The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L. Friedman

October 8, 1998: The New Demon

The Great Betrayal: How American Sovereignty and Social Justice Are Being Sacrificed to the Gods of the Global Economy by Patrick J. Buchanan

The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern World by Daniel Yergin, by Joseph Stanislaw

October 31, 1996: There They Go Again

October 20, 1994: Must We Compete?

Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in the Age of Diminished Expectations by Paul Krugman

February 17, 1994: How Dangerous is the Deficit? An Exchange

July 15, 1993: The Clinton Budget: Will It Do?

A Vision of Change for America by President Bill Clinton

Budget of the United States Government Fiscal Year 1994

December 3, 1992: Clinton's Opportunity

August 13, 1992: The Morning After

The Seven Fat Years: And How To Do It Again by Robert L. Bartley

The Bankrupting of America: How the Federal Budget Is Impoverishing the Nation by David P. Calleo

December 20, 1990: Reagan Lives!

September 28, 1989: The Deficit: An Exchange

June 1, 1989: A Deficit of Civic Courage

Report of the National Economic Commission

December 22, 1988: The Election and the Future: A Symposium

October 13, 1988: The Campaign's Hidden Issue

Books by Benjamin M. Friedman

Day of Reckoning: The Consequences of American Economic Policy Under Reagan and After (1988)
Economic Stabilization Policy: Methods in Optimization (1975)