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Milton Friedman, R.I.P.(Obituary)(Brief article)
WE live in a world transformed by Milton Friedman. Our pay stubs reflect one of the achievements about which he was properly ambivalent: He was one of the economists who, during World War II, introduced tax withholding to finance the military effort. That young people are free to choose a job at all is in part a tribute to his long opposition to conscription. He helped us to understand our own history. His Monetary History of the United States, written with Anna Schwartz, overthrew the dominant Keynesian explanation of the Great Depression as a result of "underconsumption" and placed the Federal Reserve's misconduct at the center of the story.
He helped us to understand the economic calamities of the 1970s. It is now generally accepted that inflation is a monetary phenomenon, and not the fault of unions or tax cuts; it was not generally accepted back then. (Friedman was by no means doctrinaire in his monetarism: He fully understood that changes in financial ...
- An Hour With Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Milton Friedman.
- News wire article from: Finance Wire December 27, 2005 700+ words
...CHARLIE ROSE: Milton Friedman for the hour, next...Joining me now is Milton Friedman. He is one of the...drug legalization, Social Security reform, and education...young 93. Welcome. MILTON FRIEDMAN: Glad to be here...
- Milton Friedman's "Chilean miracle".
- Newspaper article from: Dollars & Sense Reuss, Alejandro January 1, 2007 700+ words
...influential advocate of Social Security privatization, for...Secretary of Labor and Social Security, Jose Pinera, as...its "Project on Social Security Choice." So much...who else?--Milton Friedman. Alejandro Reuss...
- Dallas Fed Posts Previously Unreleased Conversation With Milton Friedman.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 8, 2007 700+ words
...issues in only the way Milton Friedman could." The conversation...business." -- On Social Security: "My favorite solution...individual who's in a Social Security system now -- either...the Dallas Fed's Milton Friedman resource page: http...
- Milton Friedman: Objective scientist first, free-market promoter second; The...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor December 28, 2006 700+ words
...Above all, economist Milton Friedman was an independent...Choose" (1980), Milton Friedman reinvigorated the...privatization of Social Security, and school vouchers...Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman." * Mark Skousen...
- The life and times of Milton Friedman: remembering the 20th century's most...
- Magazine article from: Reason Doherty, Brian March 1, 2007 700+ words
WHEN MILTON FRIEDMAN stepped forward on December 10...buses and subways. He would scrap Social Security, the entire welfare system and...it. Friedman the Young Scholar Milton Friedman was born in Brooklyn on July 31...
- EDITORIAL: Milton Friedman, 1912-2006.(Editorial)(Obituary)
- News wire article from: Boston Globe (Boston, MA) November 18, 2006 700+ words
Nov. 18--Milton Friedman, who died this week at 94, was...retirement accounts instead of Social Security, and replace the graduated income...free-market preoccupations of Milton Friedman, to shift more of society's...
- Milton Friedman (1912-2006).
- News wire article from: This Day (Nigeria) November 29, 2006 700+ words
...Nigeria) - AAGM) The American professor of economics, Milton Friedman, was without doubt one of the most influential economic...earners, and pension reforms with personal accounts for social security. Long before Friedman passed on this month, he had recorded...
- A Man of Ideas in the Arena; Milton Friedman, 1912-2006.(Obituary)
- Magazine article from: Newsweek Samuelson, Robert J. November 27, 2006 700+ words
...Keynes, 1883-1946 What Keynes said was true of economist Milton Friedman, who died last week at 94, except that Friedman's immense...volunteer military, created in 1973; and personal accounts for Social Security. Friedman, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in economics...
- Social Security overhaul is long-standing conservative dream.
- News wire article from: Knight Ridder Washington Bureau (Washington, DC) February 4, 2005 700+ words
...Roosevelt boasted that Social Security was already a "permanent...Conservative opposition to Social Security all but disappeared...Goldwater and economist Milton Friedman open a new barrage...I wanted to make Social Security solvent, to improve...
- Remarks by the President in Tribute to Milton Friedman.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 9, 2002 700+ words
...remarks by the President in tribute to Milton Friedman: Eisenhower Executive Office Building...pay tribute to a hero of freedom, Milton Friedman. He has used a brilliant mind to...University of Chicago, who mentored Milton Friedman. (Laughter.) A Nobel Prize winner...
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