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Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman is a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the Paul Snowden Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Chicago. In 1976 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics. He has written a number of books, including two... show more

Milton Friedman is a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the Paul Snowden Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Chicago. In 1976 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics. He has written a number of books, including two with his wife, Rose D. Friedman---the bestselling Free to Choose and Two Lucky People: Memoirs, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press. Photo by The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice (RobertHannah89) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons.
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Birth date: July 31, 1912
Died: November 16, 2006
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Lisa (Harmony)
Lisa (Harmony) rated it 12 years ago
This book published in 1979 by a Nobel-Prize-winning economist and his wife is still relevant (and in print) over 30 years later. The Preface tells us the book had "two parents;" Friedman's 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom where he argued free markets make for free societies, and the ten-part 1980 P...
Lisa (Harmony)
Lisa (Harmony) rated it 12 years ago
Milton Friedman is a Nobel Prize-winning economist associated with the "Chicago School" of free-market theorists. But it's not so simple to just peg Friedman as this man of the right. For one, he refuses to call himself a conservative. He points out that classically, it was defenders of the market...
oh the guilt
oh the guilt rated it 13 years ago
The fact that Friedman even considered basic income (or in this case negative income tax) a worthwhile experiment (which bureaucracy of course messed up royally), proves thata) Friedman wasn't the evil, heartless boogey man hippies always want to portray him as, and thatb) the so-called free market ...
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Itinerant Librarian on Books rated it 14 years ago
I am not rating it low because it was a bad book. I am glad to have read through it because it gave me some exposure to ideas I do not often get exposed to. These days, it is very hard to tell apart conservatives, libertarians, classical liberals, and other labels. If you want to get a good sampling...
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Xdyj's books rated it 14 years ago
When I read it for the first time a few years ago I was completely impressed, but now I don't buy many of the author's ideas, although I do still agree that it could provide some insights on what is happening in post communist countries like mine.
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