Benjamin M. Friedman, distinguished economist, government advisor, academic administrator, and William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University, will be delivering a lecture on the relationship between religion and the rise of capitalism. The author of seventeen books, Dr. Friedman's research focuses on macroeconomics and the origins and ongoing interplay between economic policy and moral philosophy and religion.

This lecture is sponsored by the LeRoy A. Martin Professorship of Religious Studies and the department of Philosophy and Religious Studies.

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