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Milton Friedman
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Milton Friedman (born July 31, 1912) won The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1976. His book Free to Choose, written with his wife Rose, became a ten-part television series on PBS in early 1980. His son David Friedman has carried on his tradition of explaining the principles of the free market.
Born in New York, he obtained a Bachelor's degree from Rutgers University, his Master's degree from the University of Chicago, and his PhD from Columbia University. He then worked for Columbia University and for the federal government, and became Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. There he carried forward the intellectual tradition of the Chicago school of economics. Friedman is currently affiliated with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
Friedman can be classified as a monetarist, and is often seen as the leading proponent of this economic school. He maintains that there is a close and stable link......

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