Instead, we need to help those hardest-hit by the pandemic get through the next six to nine months until this public health crisis passes. Then we can get the economy going again.

John Friedman

John N. Friedman is an economist who currently works as Professor of Economics and International and Political Affairs at Brown University. His research interests include public economics and political economy. Friedman was previously an assistant professor of public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and has earned an A.B., A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He became editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public Economics in 2019.

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