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“Moral
Consequences of Economic Growth” Is Subject of Pomona
College Event
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Benjamin Friedman, professor of political economy at Harvard
University, will give a lecture on “The Moral Consequences
of Economic Growth” on Thursday, March 8.
The talk is based on Friedman’s 2005 critically acclaimed
book, The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth.
Publishers Weekly reviewed the book as “a lucid,
judiciously reasoned call for renewed attention to
broad-based economic advancement.” The New Yorker
noted that Friedman “employs broad historical and
geographical perspectives to argue that a nation's
democratic institutions flourish best in times of stable
economic growth …Friedman argues for decisive steps to limit
budget deficits and for investment in programs that support
broad-based growth.”
He is also the author of Day of Reckoning: the
Consequences of American Economic Policy under Reagan and
After (1988), which was awarded the George S. Eccles
Prize from Columbia University for excellence in writing
about economics.
This lecture is sponsored by the Pomona College Hart
Institute for American History and begins at 11 a.m. at Rose
Hills Theatre (Smith Campus Center, 170 E. Sixth St.,
Claremont). For further information, call: (909) 607-9435.
The Hart Institute for American History was established at
Pomona College in 2000. The institute’s purpose is to ground
the study of broad and abiding themes in American history in
the close reading of primary documents, a term defined
broadly to include such sources as photographs, music,
material culture, and literary works, as well as traditional
historical sources. |
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