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Lee S. Friedman

Professor of Public Policy

 

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Contact Information

Email:  lfried@berkeley.edu
Phone:   (510) 642-7513,   Fax:  (510) 643-9657

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Goldman School of Public Policy
University of California at Berkeley
2607 Hearst Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94720-7320

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Biography

Lee Friedman is an economist and Professor of Public Policy at the Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and received his Ph.D. from Yale University. After two years of analytic experience working for the Vera Institute of Justice in New York City, he joined the Berkeley faculty in 1974 to help fashion the economics curriculum of the public policy program.  His research is on a wide variety of issues, among them utility regulation, educational finance, criminal justice policies, agricultural subsidies, and consumer decision-making. His work strives to improve the effectiveness of microeconomic policy analysis on actual public policies and practices. He is a recipient of the David N. Kershaw Award for distinguished public policy research, and of the University of California's Distinguished Teaching Award. He is former Editor of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and has served as President of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.

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Publications

Book

friedman_microeconomics.jpgHis most recent book is:

The Microeconomics of Public Policy Analysis (Princeton University Press, 2002); further information including the table of contents and a sample chapter is available. >> more information

For users interested in the errata found so far, please click MPPA Errata. The Solutions Manual (available from Princeton for adopting instructors) has some errata as well; please click Solutions Manual Errata.

 

 

 

Some Other Publications and Papers (by area)

Behavioral Economics 

Policy Analysis and Political Economy

  • "Presidential Address: Peanuts Envy?" Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 18, No. 2, Spring 1999, pp. 211-225.

    You may be able to access this online (if you are an APPAM member or if your organization has an agreement with the publisher) by going to Wiley Interscience.

 

Public Economics 

  • "Public Sector Pricing: An Institutional Approach," (with Christopher Weare). In F. Thompson and M. Green, eds., Handbook of Public Finance, Marcel Dekker (New York, NY: 1998), pp. 597-658.

 

Econometric Methodology 

 

Utility Regulation and Restructuring 

  • "The History of Electricity Restructuring in California," (with C. J. Blumstein and R. J. Green), Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, 2, No. 1/2, 2002, pp. 9-38.

    You may be able to access this at Springer Online. If not, a prepublication version is available at the UC Energy Institute.

  • "The California Electricity Crisis: The Long and the Short of It," International Journal of Public Policy, 4, No. 1/2, 2009, pp. 4-31.

    The theme of this work is on market power issues that may arise when policy makers create new market opportunities. It explains transitional market power in new markets and ongoing stochastically arising market power, and policies to avoid or mitigate both kinds. It emphasizes the role of long-run contracting in restructured electricity markets, and why the ban on it for California utilities was one of the causes of the California electricity crisis.

 

Environmental Markets 

  • "Intertemporal Regulatory Tasks and Responsibilities for Greenhouse Gas Reductions," (with Jeff Deason), revised May 2009. This paper was presented at the international Conference on Environmental Policy, Seoul, Korea, June 11-13, 2009. 

    Accepting the importance of achieving GHG reduction goals, this paper explains that all existing and proposed GHG cap-and-trade programs have costly intertemporal inefficiencies and how most of them can be avoided. 
  • "Should California Include Motor Vehicle Fuel Emissions in a Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Program?" This article will appear in The Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, forthcoming 2010.

  • A book review of  Markets for Clean Air, by A. Denny Ellerman, Paul L. Joskow, Richard Schmalensee, Juan-Pablo Montero, and Elizabeth M. Bailey, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press; and Waste Trading among Rich Nations, by Kate O'Neill, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2000; Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 21, No. 4, Fall 2002, pp. 717-721.

    You may be able to access this online (if you are an APPAM member or if your organization has an agreement with the publisher) by going to Wiley Interscience. This is the book review section; please go to pp. 717-721.

 

 Course Syllabi

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Misc. Opinions

 

Current favorite Berkeley restaurant for a light, relaxing meal:

  • Fonda's (1501A Solano Avenue)

 

Great new addition to the area:

  • Wood Tavern (6317 College Ave., near Alcatraz)

 

All-time favorite Berkeley restaurant:

  • Chez Panisse (1517 Shattuck Ave., Cafe;: 548-5049; Restaurant: 548-5525).

 

Favorite London restaurant:

  • I thought this was going to be the empty set, but kudos to Tendido Cero for its Spanish tapas (174 Old Brompton Road, SW5, Ph:020 7370 3685)

     

Three favorite Florence restaurants for casual dining: 

  • Olio & Convivium (via Santa Spirito 4)

  • Cantinetta Antinori (Piazza degli Antinori 3), and

  • Caffe del Cibreo (via dei Macchi 118r)

 

Favorite recent novels:

  • 2004: Matthew Pearl, The Dante Club

  • 2005: Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

  • 2006: Yann Martel, Life of Pi
  • 2007: Susanne Alleyn, Game of Patience
  • 2008: Martin Clark, The Legal Limit