Benjamin M. Friedman
Benjamin Morton Friedman, born in 1944, is a prominent American political economist and the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University, where he has been a faculty member since 1972.
He holds A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Harvard, as well as an M.Sc. in economics and politics from King's College, Cambridge, earned as a Marshall Scholar.
Friedman is affiliated with several distinguished institutions, including the Council on Foreign Relations, the Brookings Institute's Panel on Economic Activity, and the editorial board of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
