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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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• Frank H. Knight's criticism of Henry George

  - 2008-01-01

  The economic and social ideas of Henry George are as a whole at the same pre-arithmetical level, the level of those held before and since his time by all who have held any at all, apart from an insignificant handful of...

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• The concept of the apolitical: German Jewish thought and Weimar political theology

  - 2007-09-22

  INTRODUCTION: WEIMAR POLITICAL THEOLOGY RECENT YEARS HAVE SEEN CONSIDERABLE DEBATE OVER THE CONCERNS of political theology and the question as to how the concepts and categories that inform political association may have derived historically from, or logically depend upon, prior concepts of religion. Debates over this question are partly...

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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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• Milton Friedman, teacher, 1912-2006.

  - 2006-12-01

  Alegend in the economies profession died recently at the age of 94. Few economists have had the impact that Milton Friedman has had on economics. He retired from the University of Chicago in 1977, a school on which he also had a profound impact. He became synonymous...

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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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• 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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• Robert Redfield and the development of American anthropology.(book)(anthropological biography)(Book Review)

  - 2005-09-01

  WILCOX, CLIFFORD. Robert Redfield and the development of American anthropology. xi, 233 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2004. [pounds sterling]35.00 cloth Biography and biographical analysis are not adequately utilized by historians of anthropology. In fact, there is only one current scholarly...

  Tags: CAREER, Robert, scholar, scholarship, theory, University of Chicago

• 13070000 Game theory.(5: Citations)(Bibliography)(Brief article)

  - 2005-09-01

  D. Baird and T. Jackson, 1988, "Bargaining After the Fall and the Contours of the Absolute Priority Rule", University of Chicago Law Review, 55:738-789 S. Baryosef and L. Huffman, 1986, "The Information-Content of Dividends--A Signaling Approach", Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 21:47-58...

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• Make a date with Markowitz, the big daddy of risk theory.

  - 2005-07-31

  Byline: Barrie Dunstan Jul 31, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Harry Markowitz, a pioneer of modern investment theory, will speak in Australia on 11 and 12...

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