Daniel Fridman is associate professor in the Department of Sociology and the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at UT Austin.
He received his PhD in Sociology from Columbia University in 2010. He previously studied sociology at the University of Buenos Aires and worked for the National Statistics Institute in Argentina. A native of Argentina, he moved to the United States for graduate school.
Fridman is interested in the intersections of economy and culture, neoliberalism and financialization, economic policy in Latin America, consumer culture, gift-giving, the sociology of money, and the construction of economic subjects.
His book Freedom From Work: Embracing Financial Self-Help in the United States and Argentina received honorable mention for the Best Book Award 2016-2017, given by the American Sociological Association Section on Consumers and Consumption.
In 2019, he published El sueño de vivir sin trabajar: una sociología del emprendedorismo, la autoayuda financiera y el nuevo individuo del siglo XXI (The Dream of Living Without Working: A Sociology of Entrepreneurship, Financial Self-Help and the New Individual of the 21st Century).
Television interview (in Spanish): Interview in La Nación+ TV