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• Memorializing Milton Friedman: a review of his major works, 1912-2006

  - 2008-03-22

  Introduction Milton Friedman was born in July 31, 1912, in Brooklyn, NY, to Jewish immigrants, Jeno Saul Friedman and Sarah Ethel Landau, who immigrated to Brooklyn, in 1890, and 1895, respectively. Friedman's parents came from Barehovo, Ukraine, which was formerly part of Hungary and Czechoslovakia. When Milton Friedman was...

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• BEA participates in panel on semiconductors

  - 2008-03-01

  At the Allied Social Sciences Association meeting in January, BEA Chief Economist Ana Aizcorbe arranged a panel on semiconductors, chaired by Samuel Kortum University of Chicago.

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• Lessons From the Mortgage Market Meltdown: U.S. Monetary Policy Forum Releases 2008 Report

  - 2008-02-29

  CHICAGO & WALTHAM, Mass. -- The U.S. Monetary Policy Forum, an annual conference that brings together academics, market economists and Federal Reserve policymakers to discuss U.S. monetary policy, today released its 2008 report on matters confronting the Federal Open Market Committee FOMC. The report, entitled "Leveraged Losses: Lessons from...

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• Great thinkers: Milton Friedman

  - 2007-01-01

  Milton Friedman (1912-2006) BACKGROUND: The prominent free-market economist Milton Friedman was born on 13 July, 1912, in New York, the fourth and last child of Sarah Ethel Landau and Jeno Saul Friedman, Eastern Europeans who emigrated to the United States while in their teens. The household income was irregular and...

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• Economist was strong supporter of free market

  - 2006-12-27

  Nobel Memorial Prize-winner Milton Friedman, one of the most influential economists of the past century and an outspoken advocate of free markets and free choice, died Nov. 16 at the age of 94. Friedman's brand of laissez-faire capitalism seems mainstream today, but it was a major break from another great...

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• Nobelist Friedman dies at 94

  - 2006-11-17

  SAN FRANCISCO -- Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who advocated an unfettered free market and had the ear of three U.S. presidents, died Thursday at age 94. Friedman died in San Francisco, said Robert Fanger, a spokesman for the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation in Indianapolis....

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• Influential economist Milton Friedman dies at age 94

  - 2006-11-17

  WASHINGTON -- Nobel Memorial Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, an outspoken advocate of free markets and free choice, adviser to presidents and best-selling author, died Thursday at 94. Often described as one of the most influential economists of the last century, Friedman died of heart failure in San Francisco. "He had...

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• Milton Friedman, Noted Economist, Nobel Laureate, and Hoover Senior Fellow, Dies at 94

  - 2006-11-16

  STANFORD, Calif. -- Milton Friedman, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize for Economic Science and a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution since 1977, died this morning. He was 94. Friedman also had the distinction of being the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the...

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• IMF conference in honor of Michael Mussa: MussaFest--opening remarks.

  - 2005-01-01

  Good morning colleagues, ladies, and gentlemen. We will be gathered here today and tomorrow to celebrate the sixtieth birthday of a great economist and, more than that, an extraordinary human being, namely Mike Mussa. I consider it a real privilege to deliver the introductory remarks for...

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• Milton Friedman

  - 2005-01-01

  Milton Friedman Milton Friedman (born 1912) was the founder and leading proponent of "monetarism," an economic doctrine which considers the supply of money and changes therein to be the primary determinant of nominal income and prices in the economy. Milton Friedman, a native of Brooklyn, New York, was born July...

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