November 30, 2006
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Prominent free-market economist Milton Friedman, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize for Economic Science, passed away on November 16, 2006 at the age of 94. Friedman was widely regarded as the leader of the Chicago School of monetary economics, which stresses the importance of the quantity of money as an instrument of government policy and as a determinant of business cycles and inflation. In addition to his scientific work, Friedman also wrote extensively on public policy, always with primary emphasis on the preservation and extension of individual freedom. Friedman's ideas on economic freedom hugely influenced both the Reagan administration and the Thatcher government in the early 1980s, revolutionized establishment economic thinking across the globe, and have been employed extensively by emerging economies for decades.
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Milton Friedman, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize for Economic Science, has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, since 1977. He is also Paul Snowden Russell Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Chicago, where he taught from 1946 to 1976, and was a member of the research staff of the National Bureau of Economic Research from 1937 to 1981.
Professor Friedman was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1988 and received the National Medal of Science the same year.
He is widely regarded as the leader of the Chicago School of monetary economics, which stresses the importance of the quantity of money as an instrument of government policy and as a determinant of business cycles and inflation.
Complete biography of Milton Friedman
"Honoring Milton Friedman," featuring Edward H. Crane, November 16,2006 (MP3 
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"Happy Birthday, Milton Friedman," by David Boaz, July 31, 2002.
"The Happiest Warrior," by Nick Schulz, Techcentralstation.com, July 31, 2002.
"Milton Friedman: A Hero of Freedom," Cato Policy Report, vol. XXIV, no. 4, July/August 2002. (PDF 1 pg. 68 Kb)
"Changing the Course of History," Cato Policy Report, vol. XXIV, no. 4, July/August 2002. (PDF 1 pg. 70 Kb)
"Civil Warrior: Capitalism and Friedman," by Jacob Sullum, Reason.com, July 26, 2002.
"Happy 90th to a 'Hero of Freedom,'" by Joel Miller, Reason.com, July 26, 2002.
"Milton Friedman at 90," by Thomas Sowell, TownHall.com, July 25, 2002.
"Celebrating an Intellectual Dynamo," by George F. Will, The Washington Post, July 14, 2002.
"Happy Birthday, Milton Friedman," by Gary S. Becker, Business Week, July 1, 2002.
"Milton and Rose Friedman Offer Radical Ideas for the 21st Century," by Deroy Murdock, December 8, 1999.
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