Milton Friedman

    Milton Friedman

    July 31, 1912 (112 years old) in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

    Milton Friedman was an American economist who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and the complexity of stabilization policy. With George Stigler and others, Friedman was among the intellectual leaders of the second generation of Chicago price theory, a methodological movement at the University of Chicago's Department of Economics, Law School, and Graduate School of Business from the 1940s onward.

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    Great Thinkers: In Their Own WordsGreat Thinkers: In Their Own Words
    The Shock DoctrineThe Shock Doctrine
    Shadow WorldShadow World
    The One PercentThe One Percent
    Milton Friedman SpeaksMilton Friedman Speaks

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