The title of Benjamin M. Friedman’s “Religious Influences on Economic Thinking” is dully academic but eye-catching all the same. It is a slim book, some of it a restatement of the argument the author ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Benjamin M. Friedman is an Author with five videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1988 Call-In as a Professor for Economics in the Harvard University.

This probing study argues that, far from fostering rapacious materialism, economic growth is a prerequisite for the creation of a liberal, open society. Harvard economist Friedman, author of Day of ...

Being asked to review a book by an economist that is 500 pages long and has over 1,000 endnotes is an unusual event in today’s publishing world. Academic economists mostly write articles; few write ...

Harvard political economist Friedman (Day of Reckoning) delivers an ambitious intellectual history of Christian influence on the development of economic thought, from the Enlightenment to the present ...