Richard B. Freeman, Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Richard B. Freeman is Ascherman Professor of Economics at Harvard University, CoDirector of the Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard law School, and Director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also CoDirector of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Professor Freeman is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of Sigma Xi. He has served on five panels of the National Academy of Sciences, including the Committee on National Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists. He has published over 300 articles dealing with a wide range of research interests including the job market for scientists and engineers; the growth and decline of unions; the effects of immigration and trade on inequality; restructuring European welfare states; Chinese labor markets; transitional economies; youth labor market problems; crime; income distribution and equity in the marketplace; self-organizing non-unions in the labor market; and employee involvement programs. He is currently directing the NBER/Sloan Science Engineering Workforce Project (with Daniel Goroff), and an LSE research program on the effects of the internet on labor markets, social behavior and the economy.