Jeffrey M. Friedman
Assistant Professor
 
At Barnard January 2001-May 2006
 
         Photo courtesy of Eliza Bang

Address
Editor, Critical Review
P.O. Box 869, Helotes, TX 78023-0869
Email edcritrev@gmail.com

Research Interests
Political theory; political psychology; liberalism; communitarianism; democratic theory; meta-ethics; and social-science methodology.

Courses

POLS BC 1014	Political Theory II
POLS BC 1016	Modern Political Theory
POLS V 3020	Democracy and Its Critics
POLS V 3027	Liberalism, Communitarianism, and the Good
POLS BC 3100	Colloquium on the Logic of Social-Scientific/Historical Research
POLS BC 3761-62	Senior Research Seminar in Political Theory
FYSB BC 1266	First-year Seminar on the Individual, the Community and the Good

Education

Ph.D.	Yale University, Department of Political Science, 2002 Dissertation: "The Politics of Communitarianism and the Emptiness of Liberalism." Under review, Harvard University Press.
M.Phil.	Yale University, Department of Political Science, 1996
M.A.	Yale University, Department of Political Science, 1994
C.Phil.	University of California, Berkeley, Department of History, 1989 (ABD)
M.A.	University of California, Berkeley, Department of History, 1986
B.A.	Brown University, 1983, Philosophy, History

Journal
Critical Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Politics and Society
Editor, 1987-present.
Founder, 1986.

Publications
"After Democracy, Bureaucracy?" Critical Review 14, no. 1 (2000).

"Globalization: Neither Evil nor Inevitable." Critical Review 14, no. 1 (2000).

"Public Ignorance and Democratic Theory," Critical Review 12, no. 4 (1998).

"What's Wrong with Libertarianism," Critical Review 11, no. 3 (1997).

"Hayek's Political Philosophy and His Economics," Critical Review 11, no. 1 (1997).

"Introduction: Economic Approaches to Politics," in The Rational Choice Controversy: Economic Models of Politics Reconsidered, ed. Jeffrey Friedman (New Haven: Yale University Press), 1996.

"Preferences or Happiness? Tibor Scitovsky's Psychology of Human Needs" (with Adam McCabe), Critical Review 10, no. 4 (1996).

"Nationalism in Theory and Reality," Critical Review 10, no. 2 (1996) .

"Public Opinion and Democracy," Critical Review 10, no. 1 (1996).

"The Politics of Communitarianism," Critical Review 8, no. 2 (1994).

"Introduction" to John Locke, Two Treatises of Government (New York: Library of Legal Classics), 1993.

"Introduction" to John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (New York: Library of Legal Classics), 1992.

"Locke as Politician," Critical Review 2, nos. 2-3 (1989).

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