Jeffrey Friedman (March 25, 1959 – December 2, 2022) was an American political scientist and was the founder and editor of ''Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society''. Friedman majored in history and philosophy at

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

. He received an MA in history at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

, in 1985 and a PhD in political science from

Yale Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wor ...

in 2002. He taught in the Government department at

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native A ...

in 1998, the Social Studies program at

Harvard Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

from 1998 to 2000, and the Political Science department at

Barnard College Barnard College of Columbia University is a private women's liberal arts college in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a group of women led by young student activist Annie Nathan Meyer, who petitioned Columbia ...

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

from 2001 to 2006. Friedman was a visiting scholar in the Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science

and the Max Weber Fellow of the Institute for the Advancement of the Social Sciences at

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campu ...

. Friedman died in

Cambridge, Massachusetts Cambridge ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As part of the Boston metropolitan area, the cities population of the 2020 U.S. census was 118,403, making it the fourth most populous city in the state, behind Boston, ...

, on December 2, 2022, at the age of 63.

Books

* The Rational-Choice Controversy: Economic Models of Politics Reconsidered (ed.) Yale University Press (1996). * ''What Caused the Financial Crisis.'' (ed.) University of Pennsylvania Press (2010). * ''Engineering the Financial Crisis: Systemic Risk and the Failure of Regulation'' w/ Wladimir Kraus – University of Pennsylvania Press (2011). * ''Power Without Knowledge: A Critique of Technocracy''. Oxford University Press (2019).

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