Morals and Markets: The Dangerous Balance

About D. FriedmanD. McNeill

Daniel Friedman is a well-known economist and theorist who has published widely in leading academic journals in economics finance psychology and politics. His sits on the editorial board of the American Economic Review the premier academic economics journal as well as the boards of three other leaders in their fields: The Journal of Evolutionary Economics Games and Economic Behavior and Experimental Economics. He has received 11 National Science Foundation grants. His books include Experimental Methods: A Primer for Economists (Cambridge University Press 1994) with S. Sunder; The Double Auction Market: Institutions Theories and Evidence (Addison Wesley/Santa Fe Institute 1993) coedited with J. Rust about the origin and efficiency of the rules of the New York Stock Exchange and Chicago exchanges; and Economics Lab: An Intensive Course in Experimental Economics with Alessandra Cassar (Routledge 2004). He is a professor of economics at his alma mater the University of California Santa Cruz.Daniel McNeill is an author with an international reputation. His best-selling Fuzzy Logic (Simon & Schuster 1993) won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science and Technology. It was also a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and has been translated into German Italian Dutch Japanese and Chinese. He is also the author of The Face (Little Brown 1998) a Book-of-the-Month Club selection which the Washington Post called 'downright beautiful' and the Frankfurter Allgemaine Zeitung termed 'extremely entertaining and knowledgeable.' The Face has appeared in German Italian Dutch Spanish Korean and Chinese. Dan has ghostwritten numerous published books recently including one for a Harvard scientist and another for the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. He has a degree from Harvard Law School