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Milton Friedman (/ ˈ f r iː d m ən / ⓘ; July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the complexity of stabilization policy. [4]
Capitalism and Freedom, along with much of Friedman's writing, has influenced the movement of libertarian philosophy in America. Friedman's philosophy of economic and individual freedom has coincided with the emergence of political parties that have declared alignment with Friedman's ideas, such as the Libertarian Party. [6]
Since 1977, he has worked at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy. Sowell was an important figure to the conservative movement during the Reagan era , influencing fellow economist Walter E. Williams and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas .
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A new Friedman biography ably explores the economist's ideas but sidesteps the libertarian movement he was central to.
More than 60 years ago, Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman wrote that he knew of no “society that has been marked by a large measure of political freedom, and that has not also used ...
The first Libertarian Party was formed in the United States in 1971 and has grown to become the third largest [254] [255] and leading alternative American political party. As of (date?) it had a reported 511,277 voters (0.46% of total electorate) registered as Libertarian in the 31 states that report Libertarian registration statistics and ...
Kmele Foster, political commentator and telecommunications entrepreneur [73] Conor Friedersdorf, journalist, staff writer at The Atlantic [74] David D. Friedman, economist, physicist, legal scholar, political theorist, and author [75] Milton Friedman, economist, statistician, and writer [76]