Benjamin M. Friedman William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University One of America's leading experts on economic policy, Professor Friedman’s books include Day of Reckoning: The Consequences of Economic Policy Under Reagan and After, and The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth. His most recent book is Religion and
the Rise of Capitalism. He has served as a director of the Private Export Funding Corporation, a trustee of the Standish Mellon Investment Trust, an advisor to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and in advisory positions with the National Bureau of Economic Research, the National Science Foundation Subcommittee on
Economics, and the Congressional Budget Office. Friedman contributes regularly to The New York Review of Books. He holds bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from Harvard and a master’s from King’s College, University of Cambridge.
