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. (October 2012)
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The ‘Dominant Power in Washington’
November 22, 2012
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The Oligarchy in America Today
October 11, 2012
Who Stole the American Dream?
by Hedrick Smith
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Whither China?
April 5, 2012
The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World
by Michael Spence
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Cassandra Among the Banksters
June 23, 2011
Banker to the World: Leadership Lessons from the Front Lines of Global Finance
by William R. Rhodes
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Two Roads to Our Financial Catastrophe
April 29, 2010
How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities
by John Cassidy
I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay by John Lanchester
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The Failure of the Economy & the Economists
May 28, 2009
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
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A Challenge to the Free Market
November 6, 2008
The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too
by James K. Galbraith
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Chairman Greenspan’s Legacy
March 20, 2008
The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
by Alan Greenspan
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FDR & the Depression: The Big Debate
November 8, 2007
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.
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Bush & Kerry: A Big Divide
October 21, 2004
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Globalization: Stiglitz’s Case
August 15, 2002
Globalization and Its Discontents
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
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Gore vs. Bush: The Difference
October 19, 2000
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The Power of the Electronic Herd
July 15, 1999
The Lexus and the Olive Tree
by Thomas L. Friedman
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The New Demon
October 8, 1998
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
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There They Go Again
October 31, 1996
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Must We Compete?
October 20, 1994
Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in the Age of Diminished Expectations
by Paul Krugman
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How Dangerous is the Deficit? An Exchange
February 17, 1994
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The Clinton Budget: Will It Do?
July 15, 1993
A Vision of Change for America by President Bill Clinton
Budget of the United States Government Fiscal Year 1994
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Clinton’s Opportunity
December 3, 1992
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The Morning After
August 13, 1992
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
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Reagan Lives!
December 20, 1990
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The Deficit: An Exchange
September 28, 1989
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A Deficit of Civic Courage
June 1, 1989
Report of the National Economic Commission
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The Election and the Future: A Symposium
December 22, 1988
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The Campaign’s Hidden Issue
October 13, 1988