Milton Friedman on Economics: Selected Papers - Softcover

Friedman, Milton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226263495 ISBN 13: 9780226263496

Publisher: University of Chicago Press Journals, 2008

Synopsis

On his death in the autumn of 2006, Milton Friedman was lauded as “the grandmaster of free-market economic theory in the postwar era” by the New York Times and “the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century” by the Economist. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1976, Friedman was both a highly respected economist and a prominent public intellectual, the leader of a revolution in economic and political thought that argued robustly in favor of virtues of free markets and laissez-faire policies.

Milton Friedman on Economics: Selected Papers collects a variety of Friedman’s papers on topics in economics that were originally published in the Journal of Political Economy. Opening with Friedman’s 1977 Nobel Lecture, the volume spans nearly the whole of his career, incorporating papers from as early as 1948 and as late as 1990. An excellent introduction to Friedman’s economic thought, Milton Friedman will be essential for anyone tracing the course of twentieth-century economics and politics.

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About the Author:

Milton Friedman (1912–2006) was a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the Paul Snowden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. In 1976 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics.

Review:

"There are very few people over the generations who have ideas that are sufficiently original to materially alter the direction of civilization. Milton Friedman is one of those very few people." - Alan Greenspan"

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press Journals
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0226263495
• ISBN 13: 9780226263496
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180