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Benjamin M. Friedman is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy, and formerly Chairman of the Department of Economics, at Harvard University. His latest book, The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth, was published in October 2005 by Alfred A. Knopf. Friedman’s best known previous book is Day of Reckoning: The Consequences of American Economic Policy Under Reagan and After, which received the George S. Eccles Prize, awarded annually by Columbia University for excellence in writing about economics. In addition to Day of Reckoning and The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth, Friedman is the author and/or editor of eleven books aimed primarily at economists and economic policymakers, as well as the author of more than one hundred articles on monetary economics, macroeconomics, and monetary and fiscal policy, published in numerous journals. He is also a frequent contributor to publications reaching a broader audience, including especially The New York Review of Books.

Friedman’s current professional activities include serving as a director and member of the editorial board of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, a director of the Private Export Funding Corporation, a trustee of the Standish Mellon Investment Trust, and an adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In addition, he has served as director of financial markets and monetary economics research at the National Bureau of Economic Research, as a member of the National Science Foundation Subcommittee on Economics, as an adviser to the Congressional Budget Office, as a trustee of the College Retirement Equities Fund, and as a director of the American Friends of Cambridge University. He is a member of the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Friedman joined the Harvard faculty in 1972. Before then he worked with Morgan Stanley & Co., investment bankers in New York. He had also worked in consulting or other capacities with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Friedman received the A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Harvard University; during his graduate study at Harvard he was a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows. In addition, he received the M.Sc. degree in economics and politics from King’s College, Cambridge (U.K.), where he studied as a Marshall Scholar.

Most recently, Friedman was the 2005 recipient of the John R. Commons Award, presented every two years in recognition of achievements in economics and service to the economics profession.

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Since the fall of 2001, the Writing Portfolio has been providing a wealth of data about student writing at Carleton. Members of the Writing Across the Curriculum Advisory Board and Associate Dean Ciner will report on research findings that speak to student success, curriculum, teaching, and connections to other initiatives at Carleton.

“Learning from the Writing Portfolio: Assessment Yields Research”
Victoria Morse, Assistant Professor of History, Director of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Melinda Russell, Associate Professor of Music
Carol Rutz, Director of the College Writing Program, Lecturer in English
Kim Smith, Associate Professor of Political Science
Introduction by Elizabeth Ciner, Associate Dean of the College
Noon to 1:30 p.m., Alumni Guest House Meeting Room
Lunch provided for 50

“How is the Visual Ascendant? Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Visual”
Visuality Initiative Brown Bag Discussion, Spring 2007
Thursday, April 12, noon to 1 p.m., Sayles-Hill Lounge
Beverages and dessert provided

Talking Around a Term: VISUALIZATION
[1. To form a mental image of; envisage; 2. to make visible]

To launch this series of two informal discussions foregrounding visuality and the visual, bring your lunch, a willing ear, and eager tongue to find common ground, explore disciplinary differences, share methods, and ideas. Victoria Morse, moderator, will get the conversation moving through diverse disciplinary terrains with the help of Katie Sparling, Asian Languages and Literature; Bill North, History; Fernan Jaramillo, Biology; and Sarah Titus, Geology. How does "visualization" resonate in your discipline? your own work? teaching? All are welcome. (Laurel Bradley, co-chair, Visuality Working Group) A computer and projector will be available for sharing images.

Second brown bag discussion Tuesday, May 8, "Word and Image"

Co-sponsored by the Visuality Working Group and the Mellon Faculty Life Cycles Grant

Looking ahead:

Tuesday, April 17:
"Distinctive Pedagogies: Teaching Through Picture Writing"
Qiguang Zhao, Burton and Lily Levin Professor of Chinese

Join us for a demonstration of Professor Zhao’s technique of live illustration in the classroom. This will be the inaugural event in our new series on distinctive pedagogies.

Noon to 1 p.m., LDC 104 (note day, location, and that this event will end at 1 p.m.)
Lunch provided for 50

Spring Book Discussion Group

Thursday, April 19 and Tuesday, May 15
Randall Kennedy’s Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word

Facilitated by Harry Williams, David and Marian Adams Bryn-Jones Distinguished Teaching Professor of History and the Humanities, co-sponsored by the Mellon Faculty Life Cycles Grant

4:30 to 6 p.m. Headley House
Refreshments provided

If you are interested in reading the book and participating, please contact Jennifer Cox Johnson at the Perlman Center (jcoxjohn@carleton.edu; x4192).

See all Perlman LTC events for spring on the poster in your campus mail or our Web site.

NOTE: April 17 event is on TUESDAY (misprint on poster)
More posters available from the LTC by contacting Jennifer Cox Johnson.