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...Staff writer Anna M. Friedman can be reached at amfriedm@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Anna M. Friedman can be reached at amfriedm@fas.harvard.edu...
Hubbard’s graduate dissertation, “Three Essays on Government Debt and Asset Markets,” was supervised by Maier Professor of Political Economy Benjamin M. Friedman ’66, visiting professor Jerry A. Hausman, and Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein...
Perhaps we can acquit Friedman for this sentence that doesn’t fit. But we cannot let him off the hook for his more serious transgression of reducing globalization to business. In totality, “The World is Flat” is an amusing demystification of multinational corporations and consultant-speak. But it falls short of a forceful theory of a new age characterized by the equal access of diverse populations to the global economy. In the end, if the world truly is flat—whatever that really means—then its two dimensions...
...Friedman recounts a conversation with friend Ken Greer, who runs a small media company being squeezed by competition from larger advertising firms. The passage illustrates one of the most frequent criticisms of Friedman’s writing—that he privileges cute anecdotes over meaty analysis...