Professor Friedman's research interests focus on macroeconomics, in particular the economics of monetary and fiscal policy, and on the broader connections between economics and other disciplines.  He currently teaches courses on macroeconomic policy and on the challenges to our society and politics stemming from the increased reliance on robots and artificial intelligence.  His best known books are The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth and Religion and the Rise of Capitalism.  In addition to his scholarly work, he is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and a director of the Encyclopedia Britannica.  As a Harvard undergraduate he was in Dunster House.