Jeffry Frieden

{{Short description|American political scientist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox academic | name = | birth_date = | death_date = | discipline = Political economy | education = {{Plain list| * Columbia University (BA, PhD) }} | image = | workplaces = {{Plain list| * Harvard University }} | children = | influences = | doctoral_students = | spouse = | relatives = Tom Frieden (brother) }}

'''Jeffry Alan Frieden''' is an American political scientist. He is the Stanfield Professor of International Peace at Harvard University and chair of Harvard University's Department of Government.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Short Bio|url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/jfrieden/biocv|access-date=2022-01-22|website=scholar.harvard.edu|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Jeff Frieden|url=https://www.iq.harvard.edu/people/jeff-frieden|access-date=2022-01-22|website=www.iq.harvard.edu|language=en|archive-date=February 9, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240209123534/https://www.iq.harvard.edu/people/jeff-frieden|url-status=dead}}</ref> According to the Open Syllabus Project, he is one of the most cited authors on college syllabi for political science courses.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Open Syllabus: Explorer|url=https://opensyllabus.org/results-list/authors?size=100&fields=Political%20Science|access-date=2022-01-22|website=Open Syllabus|language=en|archive-date=January 22, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220122202853/https://opensyllabus.org/results-list/authors?size=100&fields=Political%20Science|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Biography == Frieden received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1979 and his Ph.D. in 1984.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-09-28|title=Sending off the Class of 2020|url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/issue/fall16/article/sending-class-2020|access-date=2022-01-22|website=Columbia College Today|language=en}}</ref> His research specializes in the politics of international monetary and financial relations.

His 2006 book ''Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century'' was called "one of the most comprehensive histories of modern capitalism yet written" by Michael Hirsh of ''The New York Times''.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hirsh|first=Michael|date=2006-03-05|title=Dollars Without Borders|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/05/books/review/dollars-without-borders.html|access-date=2022-01-22|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

His other books include ''Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy'' (2015) and (with Menzie Chinn) ''Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery'' (2011)''.''

Frieden is also the co-author and editor of political science textbooks ''World Politics Interests, Interactions, Institutions'' and ''International Political Economy: Perspectives on Global Power and Wealth.''

He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jeffry A. Frieden|url=https://www.amacad.org/person/jeffry-frieden|access-date=2022-01-22|website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences|language=en}}</ref>

His brother is Tom Frieden, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the Obama administration and Health Commissioner of New York City under mayor Michael Bloomberg.<ref>{{cite news|last=Flaherty|first=Anne|title=Former 'whiz kid' now Ebola's public face, and possible scapegoat|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/former-whiz-kid-now-ebolas-public-face-and-possible-scapegoat/|access-date=2022-01-22|website=The Times of Israel|language=en-US |issn=0040-7909}}</ref>

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