# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benjamin-m-friedman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:50:27.825Z

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name: "Benjamin M. Friedman"
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description: "Benjamin Morton Friedman is an American political economist, who is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Brookings Institute's Panel on Economic Activity, and the editorial board of the Encyclopædia Britannica. He is a recipient of the John R. Commons Award, given by the economics honor society Omicron Delta Epsilon."
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birthDate: "1944"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump