Richard B. Freeman

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  Richard B. Freeman holds the Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University and is currently serving as Faculty co-Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School. He directs the Science and Engineering Workforce Project at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and is Senior Research Fellow in Labour Markets at the LondonSchool of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performance.

  Professor Freeman is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science. He received the Mincer Lifetime Achievement Prize from the Society of Labor Economics in 2006, and in 2007 he was awarded the IZA Prize in Labor Economics. In 2011 he was appointed Frances Perkins Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

  His recent publications include: America Works (2007), What Workers Want (with Joel Rogers, 2007, 2nd edition), What Workers Say: Employee Voice in the Anglo American World (with Peter Boxall and Peter Haynes, 2007), International Differences in the Business Practices & Productivity of Firms (with with Kathryn Shaw, 2009), Science and Engineering Careers in the United States (with Daniel Goroff, 2009), Reforming the Welfare State: Recovery and Beyond in Sweden (with Birgitta Swedenborg and Robert Topel, 2010), and Shared Capitalism at Work: Employee Ownership, Profit and Gain Sharing, and Broad-based Stock Options (with Douglas Kruse and Joseph Blasi, 2010).