Milton Friedman

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Milton Friedman was a prominent American economist and Nobel laureate known for his advocacy of free-market capitalism, monetarism, and limited government intervention in the economy.

Aliases (3)
  • Friedman ×1
  • George Stigler ×1
  • Milton Friedman (in some later editions) ×1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nobel laureate
economist
human
awardReceived National Medal of Science
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Presidential Medal of Freedom
causeOfDeath heart failure
coAuthor Anna Schwartz
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1912-07-31
dateOfDeath 2006-11-16
educatedAt Columbia University
Rutgers University
University of Chicago
employer Hoover Institution
National Bureau of Economic Research
University of Chicago
ethnicGroup Jewish American
familyName Friedman
fieldOfWork economic policy
macroeconomics
monetary economics
political philosophy
givenName Milton
knownFor advocacy of free-market capitalism
consumption function theory
critique of Keynesian economics
monetarism
natural rate of unemployment
permanent income hypothesis
school voucher advocacy
languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned English
movement Chicago school of economics
classical liberalism
libertarianism
notableWork A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960
Capitalism and Freedom
Free to Choose
occupation author
economist
statistician
university teacher
placeOfBirth Brooklyn, New York City, United States of America
placeOfDeath San Francisco, California, United States of America
politicalIdeology classical liberalism
libertarianism
positionHeld Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago
religion Judaism
sexOrGender male
spouse Rose Friedman
yearOfAward 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences


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