Posted on 07/30/2002 11:23:47 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:38:43 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Today marks the 90th birthday of Milton Friedman, the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century. Almost single-handedly, he rejuvenated the free market among professional economists, after a long period in which planning and socialism held sway.
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Washington Times | Wednesday, July 31, 2002 | By Arnold Beichman
Posted on 07/31/2002 0:17 AM Pacific by JohnHuang2
Milton Friedman, the only economist I know with a sunny disposition, was in great shape the other night at the Stanford, Calif. home of George Shultz. They tell me that the former secretary of state threw a wonderful party for his longtime close friend on the occasion of the Nobel laureate's 90th birthday.
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