Article: Milton Friedman, 1912-2006.(PREDECESSORS)

Let us now praise famous men.

--Ecclesiasticus 44:1

Milton Friedman, who died in the early morning of November 16, 2006, was a world-famous economist and an ardent and effective advocate of the free-market economy. Much of his celebrity derived from his role as public intellectual, an aspect of his work that was reflected largely in popular books such as Capitalism and Freedom (1962) and the hugely successful Free to Choose (1980)--both coauthored with his wife, Rose, and the latter based on the television documentary of the same title--and in the Newsweek opinion columns he wrote for many years.

Although he was already well known by the time he ...

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